Also running Calibre, Syncthing, Transmission and Filen. all on Linux Mint.
I can’t cope with TUI-only OS’s - the command stuff makes no sense to me at all. I’ve learned some of it, and am trying to get Nextcloud running in Docker behind Nginx Proxy Manager, but I can’t work out DDNS yet so… 😂
I was keen on Proxmox or Yunohost, but put off by the fact that they totally replace the OS. I’d be more comfortable with something that runs on the OS, like Docker does.
This is going well for me - Jellyfin etc
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no idea - it’s a Ghost blog so they must have requied that, which is lame…
We will get to that in the Big Tech Walkout 2026 programme. This is for people who have no idea about tech, and struggle to know the difference between a search engine and a browser. Imagine them trying to install Linux 😂
Baby steps
Thank you for your help!
We have fixed it - the problem was that I had already set up DNS records so that Tuta could send emails using our website domain. This was blocking the proper set up of mailgun/transactional emails.
So we worked out how to set up emails for the business separately using the SMPT email server of our web hosting provider - et voila! Email set up works!
lol I thought this was a guerrilla IT warfare post where you snuck in and did it, but you actually did it with permission… 😂
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But really what I’ve got going (if you exclude Transmission) is the simplest stuff. Jellyfin, Calibre and Syncthing are just ‘click and install’ - they are all self contained so they don’t need all that Docker stuff. I suggest just tinkering with them.