Grant schrieb:
If you wish to use ssmtp with ELOG, you've got to use PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=custom and set up your own program in PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND. Read my howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails
That looks pretty slick but I try to do things as Gentoo as possible.
Me too - but what's "un-Gentoo" about using PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND?
Any chance of your functionality getting integrated into Portage?
I don't know, but it would be a very useful addition - and IMO, they could dump that useless feature, that portage can do SMTP by itself. That's so un-Unix, so Windows-like :(
Also, in place of ssmtp, would postfix alone do the trick
Yes, it would, but I'd actually not suggest to do so. Installing postfix (or any SMTP server, for that matter) just for Portage isn't the right way to go. It's too much code, opening too many potential problems, which can be sidestepped by making portage use /usr/sbin/sendmail instead.
or would I need something like courier-imap too?
IMAP has nothing to do with that. IMAP is for a client to fetch mails (kind of). It's not for sending mails. Alexander Skwar -- <Kethryvis> Gruuk: UFies are above and beyond the human race :) -- [email protected] mailing list
