On Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 28.10.2009 18:59, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 19:35:00 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > >> Am 28.10.2009 17:47, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > >>> Is your mail server really configured that local root mail needs a > >>> password? > >> > >> I don't have a local mail server on my desktop maschine. Sure, I could > >> install some kind of relay to my non-local mailserver but then I need to > >> store username and password in the config file of that relay. > > > > You don't need a mailserver. Drop a text file formatted as mail in the > > admin users maildir, and point the mail client at it as just another > > source of mail. > > 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.
