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

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> > 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

Could I use ssmtp to send elog mail to my email address?  I wouldn't
even need a login password if this is all I use it for, right?

- Gra t