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

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 28 Oct 2009, at 16:36, Grant wrote:
> ... I'm hesitant to leave my mail server's user:passwd in plain text  
> in /etc/make.conf.

The question that springs to mind is WHY are you hesitant?

If you don't want your user:pass stored ANYWHERE on the system then  
this rules out SSMTP to your ISP, too.

But I can really see why you might be so, especially in the case of a  
laptop. In that case, you might have it relay via a desktop or server  
at your home, and use the 192.168.x.y or whatever private address to  
specify this. I'm not sure how SSMTP copes with failure attempts and  
retries, but if you configured Postfix with "relayhost = 192.168.x.y"  
then it would just sit in the queue until you arrived home and it was  
able to send.

Alternatively, just open another free Gmail or Yahoo account and use  
these credentials for the sending of these admin emails. Typically you  
need to log in periodically to keep these accounts active, but I have  
fetchmail on my IMAP server checking every 5 minutes - as a  
consequence I have a number of accounts which I haven't actively used  
in years, but which are still working.

Stroller.