X-Git-Url: https://pwan.org/git/?p=pwan.org.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fsecurity%2Fhgr.rst;fp=content%2Fsecurity%2Fhgr.rst;h=f3036891f50b9d4224a1b580264b72618f89171c;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=dd55ce0638793dd8f348fe9bf679049ef34fff47;hpb=2055b7d01082bd44765c85e5eccad93e3f696e2b diff --git a/content/security/hgr.rst b/content/security/hgr.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f303689 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/security/hgr.rst @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +hgr +### + +:date: 2013-11-09 +:tags: opsec, hgr +:category: opsec +:author: Jude N + +I've implementing a version of Daniel Patterson's `Hacker's GMail Replacement`_, and finally got around to publishing it as `a Puppet module`_. +Even if you don't know puppet, it shouldn't be too hard to walk through the manifests and see what setting it up involved. + +I don't live inside Emacs as much as Mr Patterson apparently does, so I left out the notmuch and afew content. +Instead I added `radicale`_ support for publishing my calendar and todo lists, and I've started moving towards setting up LDAP for my address book. +That may be overkill - maintaining an LDAP address book for personal use looks like a PITA. + +So far, it's working well with my phone using `K9`_ for mail and `aCal`_ for a calender. On the non-phones, Thunderbird/Lightning is working out well. + +I've set up gmail to forward to my non-gmail account. Pretty much the only time I log into gmail (or google for that matter) in the past couple months +has been to delete content or wipe profile data. + +It was an interesting exercise. The next steps for this project would be to update the manifests to follow the Puppet Forge documentation standards, +and to include some rspec-puppet tests, and then to maybe like into setting up `Packer`_ to build a VM that applies the module. + +.. _Hacker's Gmail Replacement: http://dbpmail.net/essays/2013-06-29-hackers-replacement-for-gmail.html +.. _a puppet module : https://pwan.org/git/?p=hgr.git;a=summary +.. _radicale : http://radicale.org/ +.. _K9 : https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/ +.. _aCal : http://acal.me/wiki/Main_Page +.. _Packer: http://www.packer.io