Until two weeks ago I was using an IMAP server (based on Zimbra) for my work email, but the date for migration to Gmail arrived with no choice to postpone… I was very tied to using my current setup, where: offlineimap was downloading all the email to a local maildir folder, imapfilter classified the email into folders based on local options mutt accessed the maildir folder for working with the emails a script to remove duplicate emails from disk imapdedup....
Some years ago I started using geo replication to keep a copy of all the pictures, docs, etc After being using BitTorrent sync and later resilio sync (even if I didn’t fully liked the idea of it being not open source), I gave up. My NAS with 16 GB of ram, even if a bit older (HP N54L), seemed not to have enough memory to run it, and was constantly swapping....
I was using from time ago this extension for Gnome named Argos which allows to create useful data views using scripts written in whatever language of choice available, bash included. So far I had just a simple extension writing a UNICODE character, but with the suggestion of my colleague Javi Ramírez, I decided to use the motivational idea to write a simple script to calculate how much you’ve earned so far in the day and show that information at a glance on your menu bar....
Since some time ago, email filter management was not scaling for me as I was using server-side filtering, I had to deal with the web-based interface which was missing some elements like drag&drop reordering of rules, cloning, etc. As I was already using offlineimap to sync from the remote mail server to my system into a maildir folder, I had almost all the elements I needed. After searching for several options imapfilter seemed to be a perfect fit, so I started with a small set of rules and start integration with my email process....
Installing Linux on a RAID has lot of advantages, from using RAID1 to enjoy protection against drive failures or RAID0 to combine the size of several drives to create bigger space for files with all the smaller disks we have. There are several RAID level definitions and may have different uses depending on our needs and hardware availability. For this, I focused on using raid1 for the system disks (for greater redundancy/protection against failures) and raid0 (for combining several disks to make bigger space available for non important data)....