[yocto] Sending mail from embedded device

Mark Hatle mark.hatle at windriver.com
Tue Aug 6 07:50:54 PDT 2013


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



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