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Subject: Re: Sending mail from embedded device
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On 8/6/13 10:00 AM, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> 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.

Drop in replacement for the 'sendmail' command, but it's not a drop-in for 
'sendmail' the software.  (It only has sending capabilities from what I've been 
told, which is all that is required for the LSB certification.)

--Mark