[yocto] Sending mail from embedded device

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-08-06 08:41, 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?
>

Duh, I got so hung up looking for "mail" things, I didn't think to
look for SMTP...

I think this may be sufficient for my needs, thanks.

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