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From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Sending mail from embedded device
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:27:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5201320D.1010506@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52011DDF.5090807@windriver.com>

On 2013-08-06 10:01, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 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.)

And almost enough for my needs.  Amanda wants to use an MTA that
works like the desktop 'mail', e.g.
   mail -s "subject" TO <body
I wrote a simple wrapper to use msmtp/sendmail and it works fine.

Thanks

-- 
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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-06 17:27 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
2013-08-06 15:00     ` Jack Mitchell
2013-08-06 16:01       ` Mark Hatle
2013-08-06 17:27         ` Gary Thomas [this message]
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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