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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:27:50
Message-Id: 49bf44f10910281227q3d61964ei593fa159d3911256@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG? by Alan McKinnon
1 >> > That kind of delivery limits the access to this mails to the local
2 >> > maschine. If I want to read local I don't need mails, I could just read
3 >> > the logfiles from portage in /var/log/
4 >> >
5 >> > But I am aware that solving this problem is nothing that portage has to
6 >> > do, as it is no problem with portage at all.
7 >> >
8 >> > My mail was just to show that not everyone has a local mailserver
9 >> > running on his maschine.
10 >> >
11 >> > Greetings
12 >> >
13 >> > Sebastian
14 >> >
15 >>
16 >> then let it store everything as elog and read that with elogv.
17 >>
18 >> mail is just an additional bonus feature.
19 >>
20 >
21 > His initial mail said that he would like a copy of elogs to go to his inbox at
22 > his ISP. Later mails imply he might want to read them over IMAP so they are
23 > accessible at multiple locations.
24 >
25 > Sebastian,
26 >
27 > Have you looked at ssmtp? Very light, very small and you can protect your
28 > login password with Unix file permissions instead of leaving them open in
29 > make.conf
30
31 Could I use ssmtp to send elog mail to my email address? I wouldn't
32 even need a login password if this is all I use it for, right?
33
34 - Gra t

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Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>