From 93b3eb3e637aeef734de2af61a5cab0a152dd8cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Cardinal Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:57:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- devdocs/todo.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/devdocs/todo.txt b/devdocs/todo.txt index bf816ec8..54f5e3cf 100644 --- a/devdocs/todo.txt +++ b/devdocs/todo.txt @@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ WIP >>>>>>>>>>>>> Status: reprioritize this todo list, clean up, consolidate and remove dupes etc, need a clean actionable list with little thought required to do whatever is next, time may be short for a while +EMAIL hosted preparation: +Move thunderbird profile to data folder https://www.lifewire.com/back-up-thunderbird-settings-1173141 (I wonder why it's not already, seems it was copied once in 2019 maybe to set up then forgotten about) +Enable all imap folders that exist on server in thunderbird (Addressinator still there I think but how if we have no domain is a mystery to look into), maybe do cardjoy once to get a snapshot just in case but set it to not check or receive after snapshotting +Copy remaining uncopied imap folders into local folder equivalent +Set in thunderbird to copy incoming mail to imap folders into local folder location equivalent +Turn off keep local copy setting for imap folders now being copied to locally automatically so there isn't a second copy of each. +Confirm all of the above is working so that can be assured if shut down our mail server have all the mail here up to date (except cardjoy which remains as is for now) + + Test product sale links @@ -83,11 +92,23 @@ L8ER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -RESEARCH: sendgrid / email system can we have a domain just for our notifications for those that don't use their own domain and use for all users (but NOT tied to AyaNova.com) +RESEARCH: EMAIL server replacement +sendgrid / email system can we have a domain just for our notifications for those that don't use their own domain and use for all users (but NOT tied to AyaNova.com) https://linuxhandbook.com/set-up-discourse-digital-ocean/ has an example of discourse with Mailgun freen email ssytem and a domain (NOT MAILCHIMP AFTER HACK that affected digitalocean they sound like dicks) - NOTE: this is important for our business as well as we want to stop using our own mail server and we want ensured delivery of business emails which we do not have right now to all microsoft mail customers which is huge +RESEARCH: +Sendgrid is for sending out notifiations stuff like that, not a full on email provider, just a deliverer + +Fastmail looks like a good option because only need to pay for one account and can have up to 500 aliases so basically pay for support@ayannova.com but can receive on sales@ayanova.com etc and when sending will look like comes +Also they only do email, they don't use email for marketing or data gathering, there are real people to talk to if an issue wherease google is almost impossiible, they are cheaper than google etc +from sales@ayanova.com so in essence it's all that is needed. +There are issues though with keeping mail on their server, Ideally I would copy all to local on thunderbird and backup local folder here which makes sense. +TODO: figure out how to copy all email to local folders and any new mail coming in or sent out to local folders automatically so that if the mail provider gets toasted nothing is lost + https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1079742 +TODO: backup email locally in some automated way as localfolders now contains all the cardjohn email in that one place and in future will have all the old biz email too + I'm seeing I used to have all my profile in c:\data\thunderbird but now it's in some other folder so move it back to data and add it to the regular backup rotation + TEST: cheapest storage for attachments possible, test out creating a new droplet with block storage to hold the attachment files to see if it's possible, how it's done and mapped etc