- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
Just a hint for people searching a tiny selfhosted messenger with encryption and apps for iOS and android.
Just a hint for people searching a tiny selfhosted messenger with encryption and apps for iOS and android.
No idea what the heck casaOS, but here you get your turnkey XMPP servers (if you really don’t want to use a distro that packages prosody/ejabberd, which are all the ones worthy to be used anyways?):
https://snikket.org/
https://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/downloads/
casaOS is a docker-compose simplified one click solution, like unraid or heimdall.
Sure I tried to add xmpp to my apps, but finding the right one on xmpp is like the first experience with Linux … too many alternatives. I tried openfire because it sounds good with a compose file and proxy all to my caddy server. But I am stuck actually (the last 10 min), and I am unable to decide if ejabberd is better.
If your system is based on docker, couldn’t you just use the official docker image I linked? Besides, I wouldn’t recommend openfire, not because it’s not a capable server (it’s been to long since I tried it to have a meaningful opinion), but because it has less widespread usage than ejabberd/prosody, and by extent, probably less resources to help you configure it to your needs.
I know it’s not the topic of this thread, but you are not making a convincing case (to me!) for a “docker-compose simplified one click solution” that pulls you away from the most popular and well maintained alternatives :)
And you will also likely encounter things down the road pertaining to firewall configuration, domain name resolution and port multiplexing that containerization will turn into a configuration and troubleshooting nightmare, so… enjoy! (or not)