you could first pipe portage output to tee perhaps portage.log for a file to hold output then use grep on portage.log to find notifications in context sofollowing lines of notifications would be preserved. I've not used grep with lines of context before yet so don't know how that feature would work.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, Thelma wrote: > I have in my make.conf: > > PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log" > PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="mail" > PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[email protected] /usr/sbin/sendmail" > PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage" > PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="package \${PACKAGE} merged on \${HOST} with notice" > > It used to work, but ever since Rogers took over Shaw network, they started > making changes to their mail server and most email sent from command line to > myself via my provider doesn't work. > > Is there an alternative, example send these notifications to a file or print > them at the end of emerge. > >

