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

["Sebastian Beßler" <webmaster@darkmetatron.de>]

Am 28.10.2009 19:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> 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. 

NO.. As I am NOT Grant I don't said that.
My Mail was more a reply to Volker Armin Hemmann to show that not
everyone has a local mailserver running (what Volker implied)

> Later mails imply he might want to read them over IMAP so they are 
> accessible at multiple locations.

Yes, that would be great.

> 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

That sounds great, I absolutly going to look at it. Thanks for the tip,
maybe that is something for Grant too.

Greetings

Sebastian