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On 06/08/13 15:31, Gary Thomas wrote:
> My embedded device needs to send out email.
> 
> I've looked around a bit and I don't see any recipes for a
> mail sender, e.g. sendmail or postfix, for Yocto (OE-core).
> 
> Have I missed something?  Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Surely my application isn't the first that wants to send email...
> 

Would recipes-extended/msmtp do the job? Do you need to run the whole
mail stack or is pushing out emails to an smtp server adequate?

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