From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3DW6-0002pd-Es for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:45:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE0AFE06D8; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D1FE06D8 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so533885fga.10 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:45:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=l8TeLH85OhEk1P+OAVBmyTnMIIMzlv0Zl1EHGKXVdcs=; b=VVz9zsAn1VxlgnlsQ660TBk+E3A5iR+hYa6vuOhw8b3Q6Peb3zJ8+3neOu7zU90a4O gGBXjH7cauDZfVzAEVKH0MFXuPDtD5vN9ELEo8GE8YeXxUxknHNLbMyBlYTURXkC3kO4 w8KRYegXCYAF7pO2et+DinDhOjAh3J0ecnsIE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=WICQ0FdaZF07FnR0l8PrfaHVNRX7dU8HS1e/0I7J/v8D2Y/SD3hQkat090OOZR8+SX yAMcStP4aEafQvNEr7ZpEOYZZVBBzSAfuuTEp7A34UqxAHIPrjZj4Iu52manw0xxnxq5 l77kGVsS2Q6PJwrOrXFYv0VbAQIlPZLAqkAEQ= Received: by 10.86.221.25 with SMTP id t25mr2814854fgg.19.1256755503884; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm2989206fga.10.2009.10.28.11.45.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:45:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG? Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:44:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.3r4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <49bf44f10910280936m47613bfx91827e3c3d4a30c6@mail.gmail.com> <200910281959.22596.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AE88ED0.2010303@darkmetatron.de> In-Reply-To: <4AE88ED0.2010303@darkmetatron.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200910281944.59709.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4573c869-8670-4105-8887-f959f207ea18 X-Archives-Hash: 792f2dee47eca2bf293d8b5ebc43e49b On Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009, Sebastian Be=DFler wrote: > Am 28.10.2009 18:59, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 19:35:00 Sebastian Be=DFler wrote: > >> Am 28.10.2009 17:47, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > >>> Is your mail server really configured that local root mail needs a > >>> password? > >> > >> I don't have a local mail server on my desktop maschine. Sure, I could > >> install some kind of relay to my non-local mailserver but then I need = to > >> store username and password in the config file of that relay. > > > > You don't need a mailserver. Drop a text file formatted as mail in the > > admin users maildir, and point the mail client at it as just another > > source of mail. >=20 > That kind of delivery limits the access to this mails to the local > maschine. If I want to read local I don't need mails, I could just read > the logfiles from portage in /var/log/ >=20 > But I am aware that solving this problem is nothing that portage has to > do, as it is no problem with portage at all. >=20 > My mail was just to show that not everyone has a local mailserver > running on his maschine. >=20 > Greetings >=20 > Sebastian >=20 then let it store everything as elog and read that with elogv. mail is just an additional bonus feature.