From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: <yocto@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: Sending mail from embedded device
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 09:50:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52010D4E.4090009@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52010B1F.3060901@communistcode.co.uk>
On 8/6/13 9:41 AM, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> 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?
>
msmtp is provided specifically to be able to send email out. It should produce
a binary called "sendmail" that is capable of simply sending email (and
conforming to LSB requirements.)
--Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-06 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-06 14:31 Sending mail from embedded device Gary Thomas
2013-08-06 14:41 ` Jack Mitchell
2013-08-06 14:50 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2013-08-06 15:00 ` Jack Mitchell
2013-08-06 16:01 ` Mark Hatle
2013-08-06 17:27 ` Gary Thomas
2013-08-06 18:39 ` Tomas Frydrych
2013-08-08 9:58 ` Tim Coote
2013-08-08 11:49 ` Gary Thomas
2013-08-08 19:54 ` Tim Coote
2013-08-06 14:51 ` Gary Thomas
2013-08-06 15:13 ` Paul Eggleton
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