I use Mail-in-a-Box on a small VPS. Have been doing so for about 10 years. It takes care of basically everything.
Last year I subscribed to a small-time email provider, anydomain.net, because I got tired of playing whack-a-mole with services blocking my entire subnet due to spammers on the VPS. All told I probably spend ~US$20 per month to host it.
This project is so popular that it’s preinstalled on every OS!
SSH key auth for terminal login, plus an nginx proxy and client cert auth on anything accessible by the outside world. I’ll expose any internal service I want because nobody is getting through the client cert auth.
does it support white listing things?
Actually, yes! I got a really good suggestion on this and it now supports a whitelist of TMDB/TVDB IDs in a file called protected which you can volume mount when you call the container:
docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host -v /home/user/protected:/app/protected ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py
Let’s not pretend all of this stuff is high art. Look, if they really need to watch Krampus: Origins, they can download it again.
It does not. My suggestion is to either set your threshold high enough that the content gets watched, or put it in a separate library of special content you don’t want deleted.
After a bunch of digging, I was able to find this documentation for configuring Slack integrations with shoutrrr, which is the notification system bolted on to scrutiny. After quite a bit more trial and error, I wasn’t able to get token auth working (it appears shoutrrr’s updated docs are already out of date), but I was able to make webhooks work. Gotta say, shoutrrr’s configuration strings are awfully user-hostile.
After some more trial and error, I was able to get SMTP auth working after removing all special characters from my password and setting it to a stupidly long randomly generated string.
I used scrutiny years ago, but recall not being happy with it for some reason. I’ll give it another try.
Edit: I remember now. The notification configuration is next-level awful. The documentation is close to nonexistent. Getting basic SMTP auth is non-functional. Finding an actual example of a slack notification configuration is impossible. Have any working configs you can share?
Nope! You pay for usenet aggregators who are archiving literally everything posted.
I recommend a private, paid indexer simply because there tends to better results from them.
Nothing dark web about it. Just old school.
One of the benefits of downloading from usenet is that no VPN is required: all of your content to/from your usenet provider can be encrypted and you’re never uploading content, like a torrent.
Look online and find yourself:
a usenet NZB indexer (pay for this service. Not free)
a usenet provider. Get a monthly subscription. They’re reasonably-priced. Tons of reviews out there, just search.
After you have both of those, you install sonarr (for TV shows), radarr (for movies), and sabnzbd+ (for doing the download). You connect your indexer account to sonarr/radarr and your usenet account to sabnzbd. Then, for example, you search for a movie on your radarr installation: radarr sends a query to your NZB indexer, which finds a result and returns it to radarr; that result is then forwarded to sabnzbd from radarr; sabnzbd connects to your usenet account and downloads the requested content. Presto!
How are you currently searching & downloading content?
In my specific case, I’m subscribed to a usenet indexing service, which is hooked in to sonarr & radarr, which send downloads to sabnzbd+ to trigger the downloads. Overseerr just adds another layer, sending requests to sonarr/radarr.
That said, Overseerr will work with pretty much whatever your specific method is. Just hook it in and the services handle the rest.
You would just be another Overseerr user. At initial setup, you pull all of the users you’ve shared your Plex server into the Overseerr config. You can dig into the settings and tweak it - the number of movies a default user can request per day, number of seasons of TV, etc. I have mine set up to auto-approve all requests, but users can only request one season of TV and three movies per day, to avoid people abusing the service. In general I don’t have to touch it.
If you want it accessible outside of your LAN, then yes, you’ll need a domain or tailscale/a VPN of some kind. But that’s true of any service.
I have some pretty heavy security on my config, but I expose the Overseerr container directly and just let the Plex auth do its thing. It doesn’t have write access to anything important anyway.
You’ve been recommended Ombi, but I recommend Overseerr instead. You can set it to permit them to only login using Plex auth (so no credentials for you to manage) and import your user list from Plex. It links up to radar or sonarr (and other stuff) for downloads. It can be configured to auto-approve downloads so you don’t have to do anything.
I’ve been using it for years now. It’s great.
I dunno. You’d think the same thing about Rage Against the Machine, yet here we are.
If you can catch a good sale, they’re more affordable .I picked up two for about US$45 for their “May the Fourth” one-day sale in 2022.
Would Plex be an option here? I don’t use it, but I know it has a photo library feature.