On 2008-04-18, Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):

>> It's been three years since I last set up mail on my
>> workstation which I'm replacing after a motherboard failure.
>> One of the pieces I'm missing is what do I need to allow
>> processes like portage and mdadm send notification messages to
>> my email account. IIRC, I had something that just forwarded
>> smtp mail to my public account.
>
> mail-mta/ssmtp, which is generally installed by default.

Or, if you need to support multiple e-mail accounts: mail-mta/msmtp.

It's just as simple to set up as ssmtp, but allows per-user
configuration, and each user can configure multiple accounts.

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