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On Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: |
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> Am 28.10.2009 18:59, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 19:35:00 Sebastian Beßler wrote: |
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> >> Am 28.10.2009 17:47, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: |
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> >>> Is your mail server really configured that local root mail needs a |
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> >>> password? |
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> >> |
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> >> I don't have a local mail server on my desktop maschine. Sure, I could |
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> >> install some kind of relay to my non-local mailserver but then I need to |
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> >> store username and password in the config file of that relay. |
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> > |
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> > You don't need a mailserver. Drop a text file formatted as mail in the |
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> > admin users maildir, and point the mail client at it as just another |
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> > source of mail. |
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> That kind of delivery limits the access to this mails to the local |
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> maschine. If I want to read local I don't need mails, I could just read |
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> the logfiles from portage in /var/log/ |
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> But I am aware that solving this problem is nothing that portage has to |
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> do, as it is no problem with portage at all. |
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> My mail was just to show that not everyone has a local mailserver |
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> running on his maschine. |
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> Greetings |
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> Sebastian |
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then let it store everything as elog and read that with elogv. |
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mail is just an additional bonus feature. |
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