Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-07 Thread Grant
If you're worried about either of those scenarios, set up a separate account for your email alerts. I like the separate account idea. Any tips on locking it down? Maybe that account on the mail server should somehow only be allowed to deliver to a single email address (mine)? Would

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/05/2012 01:43 AM, Grant wrote: I switched to msmtp when nbsmtp was treecleaned. The switch was uneventful; it just works, which is high praise. You can't encrypt your password unless you're going to be physically present to decrypt it (with some other password). If your machine is

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: msmtp --passwordeval 'gpg -d mypwfile.gpg' Be careful with passing your password as a command line argument, because it will put your password into the output of ps. This would allow any user on the system to read your password. -- R

[gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-04 Thread Grant
I was setting up ssmtp but I realized it isn't being maintained and there are a couple of alternatives called msmtp and dma. Can anyone recommend one of these over the other? I don't like how ssmtp stores the mail password in clear text in its config file. It looks like msmtp can pull the

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/05/2012 12:28 AM, Grant wrote: I was setting up ssmtp but I realized it isn't being maintained and there are a couple of alternatives called msmtp and dma. Can anyone recommend one of these over the other? I don't like how ssmtp stores the mail password in clear text in its config

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-04 Thread Grant
I was setting up ssmtp but I realized it isn't being maintained and there are a couple of alternatives called msmtp and dma. Can anyone recommend one of these over the other? I don't like how ssmtp stores the mail password in clear text in its config file. It looks like msmtp can

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-04 Thread Eray Aslan
On 12/5/12 7:28 AM, Grant wrote: I was setting up ssmtp but I realized it isn't being maintained and there are a couple of alternatives called msmtp and dma. Can anyone recommend one of these over the other? msmtp and nullmailer are good choices as light weight MTAs. I hope to change the