From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B0EE01599 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 10:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id BC88DF81210; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:27:41 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503E4F8120E; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:27:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <5201320D.1010506@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:27:41 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 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> <52010FA8.1000101@communistcode.co.uk> <52011DDF.5090807@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <52011DDF.5090807@windriver.com> Subject: Re: Sending mail from embedded device X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list 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 17:27:49 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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