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SMTPMailSetup
ManytimesyouwanttohavetheabilitytosendemailfromprocessesonyourRaspberryPitoemail
addressesoutonthenetwork.AddingemailtoyourRaspberryPiisprettysimple.Youcanusethe
followingthreepackagesforsomesimplemailcapabilities.
Itisassumedthatyouhavenetworkingworkingalready...
Loadingthepackages
sudo apt-get install ssmtp
sudo apt-get install mailutils
sudo apt-get install mpack
SettingupthedefaultsforSSMTP
sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
Noweditthefields:
AuthUser=youruserid@gmail.com
AuthPass=userpass
FromLineOverride=YES
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES
UsingEmailNow
echo "sample text" | mail -s "Subject" username@domain.tld
SendingAttachments
mpack -s "test" /home/pi/test/somefile.ext username@domain.tld
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