Hello all, I am trying to do a (presumably) very simple task. I want my Beaglebone Black (BBB) to send me an email when a button wired to it is pushed.
A) I don't know for sure if I have Angstrom or Debian (or otherwise?) and I don't know how to find out B) I'm aware of email services include msmtp, ssmtp, exim4, etc from my current efforts on the topic, but I don't know how to download, install, and set them up (or even which one I should use) Background info: I'm currently using Putty as my terminal to talk to the BBB. I've found that I need to connect an ethernet cable directly to the BBB (instead of piggybacking via USB tot he laptop's wireless) to actually get network capability. I've been working on this for the past few days, but this is my first time getting my hands dirty with a BBB (and Linux, operating systems in general), so most of the tutorials I've been reading aren't very helpful because they assume I know things that I don't (they say "install this package"....but how?). If we could piece together a sort of step-by-step for this whole process, that would vastly help both myself and anyone else trying to do what I'm doing. Thanks much! The main tutorial I'm following: http://inspire.logicsupply.com/2014/04/alarm1-send-email.html Some other links I've been using: http://dumb-looks-free.blogspot.com/2014/06/beaglebone-black-bbb-send-mail-via-gmail.html http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/10/21/sending-email-from-your-system-with-ssmtp/ http://nekhbet.com/ssmtp_gmail.shtml http://linux.die.net/man/5/ssmtp.conf http://www.absolutelytech.com/2010/07/17/howto-configure-msmtp-to-work-with-gmail-on-linux/ http://knek-tek.me/index.php/2015/05/28/how-to-send-email-from-the-beaglebone-black-with-a-gmail-account/ https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/smtp.client -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/67e26c37-36e7-4f74-bb38-55d93564c417%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
