Wondering why messages are deleted from your trash after a week?

iPhone, Linux

I had a special script that removes e-mail from Trash after 90 days. But one day I was looking for a message older than 7 days and realized that older messages are no longer in trash!

I checked Roundcube settings, but it does not have such option. There is only an option to delete all messages from after logout.

Auto expunge can be configured in dovecot, but there was not such configuration:

doveconf | grep expunge

People on the internet were pointing to mail clients like Thunderbird. After some more digging I found out the iPhone by default has such setting! OMG!!!

You need to go to your mail account advanced settings on your iPhone.

Automatic external monitor switch on Arch Linux

Arch Linux

Install autorandr.

sudo pacman -S autorandr

Save current configuration. If you are on notebook you can eg. call it mobile.

autorandr --save mobile

Now connect you external monitor. Change the monitor settings as you wish and save it.

autorandr --save docked

From now on, when you connect external monitor it will automatically switch to it. If you disconnect it it will revert back internal monitor only.

Plone 6 and Azure login

Plone

If you have Microsoft 365 you can setup Plone to use Azure login. You need to install pas.plugins.authomatic. It also supports Volto.

In Azure you need to create App Registration. You can follow this guide.

In API Permissions you need to add User.Read.All Application permission.

In Certificates & secrets create a new client secret.

Finally the PAS Authomatic configuration looks like this:

{
    "azure": {
        "id": 1,
        "display": {
            "title": "Azure",
            "cssclasses": {
                "button": "plone-btn plone-btn-default",
                "icon": "glypicon glyphicon-github" 
            },
            "as_form": false
        },
        "propertymap": {
            "email": "email",
            "name": "fullname" 
        },
        "class_": "authomatic.providers.oauth2.MicrosoftOnline",
        "domain": "ADD_YOUR_TENANT_ID",
        "consumer_key": "YOUR_APP_REGISTRATION_CLIENT_ID",
        "consumer_secret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET",
        "scope": ["openid profile"],
        "access_headers": {
            "User-Agent": "Plone (pas.plugins.authomatic)" 
        }
    }
}

Lock Screen and Hibernate in Ubuntu 22.04

Linux,

In Ubuntu you can hibernate your PC by using the following command:

sudo systemctl hibernate

The problem is it does not automatically lock the screen. To lock the screen use:

xdg-screensaver lock

Now we can combine it together:

xdg-screensaver lock && systemctl hibernate

Note that you will need to enable your user to execute systemctl hibernate without sudo. You can do it by editing /etc/sudoers. Just add:

your-username ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl hibernate

GService causing Windows 11 to sleep when RPD session ends?

Uncategorized

I was struggling with this issue for a while. After I updated my PC with Windows 10 to Windows 11. I used to connect to this PC remotely using RDP. Any time I disconnected from RDP the PC went to sleep.

I was not able to find anything relevant on Google.

After some more digging in Event Viewer I found some events related to GCloud a part of GService which is software provided by GIGABYTE.

After I uninstalled GService the problem finally disappeared!

Unable to login to ZyXEL NAS542 after firmware upgrade

HW

Today I upgraded our ZyXEL NAS to firmware V5.21(ABAG.7). After the upgrade, I was unable to into the web interface. SSH login for admin worked fine.

Because of Zyxel security advisory for the remote code execution vulnerability of NAS products — Zyxel Community the password no longer may contain special characters. If you used those special character in your admin password before update, you will need to reset it.

You should be able to reset admin password using the RESET button as stated in the documentation. But that did not worked for me.

If you have admin SSH access to the NAS, you may change the password by executing smbpasswd command. Web interface uses Samba for the authentication. As soon as you change the password using smbpasswd you should be able to login to web interface. Finally change the password in the web interface to make it permanent.