Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/01
Some notes, as I’m looking to a stable, simple to maintain email forwarding system that is also secure and – yes – can cost money.
I need to leave IT-infrastructure behind that is easy to maintain for my heirs.
Some links:
- [Archive.is] mausdompteur π on Twitter: “Email! Yes, Email. Need to Set Email for a domain, basically forward only. Has anyone ever heard of https://t.co/v29TbMXrrl? Is it good? Any alternatives I should consider?”
- [Wayback] The Best Free Email Forwarding Service for Custom Domains | Forward Email
The best open-source and free email forwarding service for custom domains. We do not keep logs nor store emails. We don’t track you. Unlimited aliases, catch-alls, wildcards, API access, and disposable addresses. Built-in support for DKIM, SRS, SPF, ARC, DMARC, and more. No credit card required.
- [Wayback] FAQ | Forward Email has a truckload of information, but the main points for me are these:
What is the max email size limit
We default to a 50MB size limit, which includes content, headers, and attachments. Note that services such as Gmail and Outlook allow only 25MB size limit, and if you exceed the limit when sending to addresses at those providers you will receive an error message.
An error with the proper response code is returned if the file size limit is exceeded.
…
What is the difference between Free and Enhanced Protection
The Free plan requires you to use public DNS records to store your forwarding configuration. Anyone with a computer can lookup your forwarding configuration in a terminal if you are on the Free plan. Unlike the Free plan, the Enhanced Protection plan uses a cryptographically generated random string to store your forwarding configuration privately.
| Free Plan |
Enhanced Protection Plan |
forward-email=user@gmail.com |
forward-email-site-verification=m8d7o8K4Il |
- [Wayback] About | Forward Email with this very important point for me:
Privacy
We have a “zero tolerance policy”Β privacy policy, which states that we don’t store logs nor emails, and we don’t track users. Our statement clearly states that we do not collect nor store forwarded emails, metadata, server-side nor client-side logs, IP addresses, or browser information.
Only an email address is required to create and configure the Enhanced Protection Plan, which hides DNS email alias information on the free plan through a managed and hosted service.
User’s accounts, domains, and all related information can be permanently deleted at any time by the user.
- [Wayback] Pricing | Forward Email (levels: free / enhanced protection / team / enterprise)
Free email forwarding for domains with features including Custom Domain Email Forwarding, Disposable Addresses, Multiple Recipients, Wildcards, and more!
- It’s open source too (written in JavaScript using Node.js), but running it requires you to keep up with versions and security: [Wayback/Archive.is] forwardemail/free-email-forwarding: The best free email forwarding for custom domains. Visit our website to get started (SMTP server)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/01
Interesting:
Some corporate networks are behind HTTP proxy servers that use NTLM authentication. Dropbox currently doesn’t support this kind of proxy authentication. However, some users have reported some success using an intermediate proxy, such as [WayBack] NTLMAPSΒ or [WayBack]Β cntlm, to get Dropbox running on their network.
This article explains steps on various systems to install proxies that support NTLM authentication: [WayBack]Β Allow Dropbox to Authenticate With a NTLM Proxy Server – The Unofficial Dropbox Wiki.
Need to try these. Maybe they work for Copy.com too (:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/28
Twitter account [Archive.is] @AltTextCrew is cool: it can OCR text from images, which is great for visually impaired people.
Just answer a tweet containing such an image and it replies with a series of tweets with the texts of that image.
@AltTextCrew OCR please
You can also have it check and analyse the links from a tweet, just reply this to that tweet:
@AltTextCrew analyze links
[Archive.is] @hbeckpdxΒ is the driving force behind both @AltTextCrew and [Archive.is] @AltTxtReminder:
Edit 20220510: AltTxtReminder got open sourced!
Below are two examples of @AltTextCrew usage:
OCR
- image: [Archive.is] databass π³οΈββ§οΈβ’ on Twitter: “@AltTextCrew OCR pleaseβ¦ “
- text: [Wayback] Thread by @AltTextCrew on Thread Reader App β Thread Reader App
Text 1/5:
CVE-2021-20022 Arbitrary file upload through post- authenticated βbranding” feature Like many enterprise products with a web- based user interface, SonicWall Email Security includes a feature known as
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“branding” which gives administrators the ability to customize and add certain assets to the interface, such as company logos. These branding assets are managed via packages, and new packages can be
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created by uploading ZIP archives containing custom text, image files, and layout settings. A lack of file validation can enable an adversary to upload arbitrary files, including executable code, such
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as web shells. Once uploaded, these branding package ZIP archives are normally expanded and saved to the <SonicWall ES install path>\data\branding directory. However, an adversary could place
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malicious files in arbitrary locations, such as a web accessible Apache Tomcat directory, by crafting a ZIP
Link analysis
Explanation
I really want to know what programming languages, frameworks, libraries and APIs they use for this bot.
Edit 20211028:
It uses the Google Vision API, as Tesseract was too slow and inaccurate:
Edit 20211211:
Note that usually the text will be published in the alt tag of the images:
[Archive] Hannah Kolbeck π³οΈββ§οΈ on Twitter: “@jpluimers @AltTextCrew No, it always prefers to tweet images with alt text. Right now if the ocr result from the targeted tweet is too long to fit in 4 images worth it will fall back to posting a thread.” / Twitter
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/21
I have used other on-line HTML cleanup tools in the past (especially for including parts of web-pages in a blog post), but so far none beats HTML Washer:Β [Wayback] HTML cleanup tool & simplifier. For basic & clean HTML π§
An online tool that reduces HTML to basic tags and attributes. Removes scripts, CSS, and other non-basic elements like , , etc⦠Also, corrects errors and formats the HTML doc or a fragment.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/08
Preparing for another PowerShell article, I found this blast from the past, as somehow this missed the publishing schedule back in 2014!
Original text
After struggling with [Wayback] PowerShell ISE for a while ([Wayback] it started as a proof of concept and wasn’t meant to be an IDE you know) reading [Wayback] Powershell Studio vs Primal Forms Free CE vs PowerShellPlus Pro (also free) – Spiceworks, I’ve started using the free [Wayback] PowerGUIΒ IDE for PowerShell by Dell.
The [Wayback] free PowerGUI used to be maintained by Quest, and after [Wayback] the acquisition of Quest by DellΒ in 2012, it is still free and is now atΒ Product Support – PowerGUI Pro.
It is great (even got [Wayback] full support for PowerShell 3.0) and you can get it at the [Wayback] PowerGUI Downloads.
Notes:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/01
Having spurious non-breaking spaces seems to be unavoidable: [WayBack] Unwanted non-breaking spaces ( ) | WordPress.org.
Deleting them is tough:
- in the visual editor, deleting a non-breaking spaces will mess up at least lists,
pre and code blocks.
- the text editor is the only reliable place to remove them. Search for
.
–jeroen
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