From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from owm.eumx.net (eumx.net [91.82.101.43]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E87E003F8 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 08:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52010FA8.1000101@communistcode.co.uk> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:00:56 +0100 From: Jack Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <520108A5.7090806@mlbassoc.com> <52010B1F.3060901@communistcode.co.uk> <52010D4E.4090009@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <52010D4E.4090009@windriver.com> Subject: Re: Sending mail from embedded device X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: ml@communistcode.co.uk List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:01:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/08/13 15:50, Mark Hatle wrote: > 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 Colour me impressed, I didn't realise it was also a drop-in for sendmail. -- Jack Mitchell (jack@embed.me.uk) Embedded Systems Engineer Cambrideshire, UK http://www.embed.me.uk --