-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ledgersmb-devel] Adding to OpenBSD. Is this a good time now? From: David G lsmbdev@sbts.com.au Date: Tue, December 19, 2017 6:16 pm To: devel@lists.ledgersmb.org

Hi Chris,

What software was running the forums, and how much disk space does the current data use?

I have a server running on google cloud that I can look at adding a container to.

Regards David G

Thanks, but I found a server that should be OK. I'm just waiting for the hardware to be set up and I can get stuff installed!

I'm using mwforum which is no longer under active development. It has an addon to turn incoming mail into posts. I've never had any security problems with it. There were a few troll bots that registered, but that was a long time ago and wasn't a big problem. I do a few strange things with the incoming mail to not lose anything when the forum or PostgreSQL is offline.

My main concern is that I have lost all of the recent mail for months now. If there is a way to get the mail sent again to add it to the database, that would be great, but the move away from Sourceforge also happened. Worst case might be best just to restart the mail boards from scratch starting when I get everything running again. I was already considering trying to trim off the old mail anyway since the database dumps were getting pretty large. Perhaps a couple of emails that sum up what's going on and what has been done would be the simplest way to solve the missing emails. I could make these sticky posts at the top of the boards for each mailing list.

Thanks for the offer, hopefully I will get everything up and running in a few days.

Thanks, Chris Bennett