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On 28 Oct 2009, at 16:36, Grant wrote: |
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> ... I'm hesitant to leave my mail server's user:passwd in plain text |
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> in /etc/make.conf. |
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The question that springs to mind is WHY are you hesitant? |
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If you don't want your user:pass stored ANYWHERE on the system then |
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this rules out SSMTP to your ISP, too. |
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But I can really see why you might be so, especially in the case of a |
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laptop. In that case, you might have it relay via a desktop or server |
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at your home, and use the 192.168.x.y or whatever private address to |
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specify this. I'm not sure how SSMTP copes with failure attempts and |
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retries, but if you configured Postfix with "relayhost = 192.168.x.y" |
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then it would just sit in the queue until you arrived home and it was |
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able to send. |
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Alternatively, just open another free Gmail or Yahoo account and use |
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these credentials for the sending of these admin emails. Typically you |
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need to log in periodically to keep these accounts active, but I have |
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fetchmail on my IMAP server checking every 5 minutes - as a |
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consequence I have a number of accounts which I haven't actively used |
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in years, but which are still working. |
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Stroller. |
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