On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:36 -0700, Grant wrote: > I'd like to receive ELOG messages in my inbox, but I'm hesitant to > leave my mail server's user:passwd in plain text in /etc/make.conf. > Do there exist public mail servers where I can send messages like this > to be delivered? I guess that's called an open replay? If I use my > ISP's mail server, should it still work when on a different ISP? > > - Grant >
One way you can do this is to use ssmtp. The config file is normally not world-readable and it also has the advantage that it can talk to your SMTP server via SSL/TLS. If you also have a mail service that supports aliases, you can also have it sent to an alias address and have it filtered/delivered based on the alias (for e.g. on my systems portage sends all its emails to port...@marduk.<domainname>.org. A second alternative is to have ELOG send to a program and have that program in charge of delivering the message (via SMTP or whatever). You can make this program store the program and have it only readable/executable by root (or whoever portage runs as). Hope this helps, -a
