Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 20:44:59 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > 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/
> > 
> > But I am aware that solving this problem is nothing that portage has to
> > do, as it is no problem with portage at all.
> > 
> > My mail was just to show that not everyone has a local mailserver
> > running on his maschine.
> > 
> > Greetings
> > 
> > Sebastian
> > 
> 
> then let it store everything as elog and read that with elogv.
> 
> mail is just an additional bonus feature.
> 

His initial mail said that he would like a copy of elogs to go to his inbox at 
his ISP. Later mails imply he might want to read them over IMAP so they are 
accessible at multiple locations.

Sebastian,

Have you looked at ssmtp? Very light, very small and you can protect your 
login password with Unix file permissions instead of leaving them open in 
make.conf

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