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On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:36 -0700, Grant wrote: |
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> I'd like to receive ELOG messages in my inbox, but I'm hesitant to |
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> leave my mail server's user:passwd in plain text in /etc/make.conf. |
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> Do there exist public mail servers where I can send messages like this |
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> to be delivered? I guess that's called an open replay? If I use my |
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> ISP's mail server, should it still work when on a different ISP? |
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> - Grant |
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One way you can do this is to use ssmtp. The config file is normally |
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not world-readable and it also has the advantage that it can talk to |
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your SMTP server via SSL/TLS. If you also have a mail service that |
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supports aliases, you can also have it sent to an alias address and have |
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it filtered/delivered based on the alias (for e.g. on my systems portage |
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sends all its emails to portage@marduk.<domainname>.org. |
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A second alternative is to have ELOG send to a program and have that |
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program in charge of delivering the message (via SMTP or whatever). You |
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can make this program store the program and have it only |
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readable/executable by root (or whoever portage runs as). |
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Hope this helps, |
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-a |
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