Sorry - forgot os: OS X, using homebrew.

For 2) postfix seems to be the solution - see
e.g. http://www.checkmarkmedia.com/node/10

Cheers,

Rainer

Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Hi
>
> I really like my mail setup with offlineimap. There are only two things
> I would like to have:
>
> 1) something similar to offlineimap for gmane, so that I can download my
> news into a local news server and then read it when offline and
>
> 2) a local smtp relay (I think this is the right word) to which I can
> send email but which is really sending them out once I am online (or can
> I do this in gnus?)
>
> Any tips on how I could achieve this? I would, particularly for 1,
> prefer out of gnus solutions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer

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