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 1N3TWa-0001iV-CT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:50:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8379E00E8; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0B6E00E8 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:50:38 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,645,1249254000"; d="scan'208";a="144549379" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 29 Oct 2009 11:50:37 +0000 Received: from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211A012803 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:50:35 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <4985CB04-63AB-4855-A881-3AC8F1B8BDA9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10910280936m47613bfx91827e3c3d4a30c6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG? Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:50:33 +0000 References: <49bf44f10910280936m47613bfx91827e3c3d4a30c6@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 3df2d5d5-ec15-40c9-a4af-fcd23f1520c3 X-Archives-Hash: bd834c8bdaf4b1918161b940cd234fd6 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.