IMHO the simplest way to do it is setup a free Gmail account and enable
imap/pop support on it. Then install mutt on your BBB and configure it to
send the email through Gmail. Then on the BBB do something like
system("echo 'No Heartbeat:' `/bin/date` | /usr/bin/mutt -s ' Problem!' --
user@domain. ; rm $HOME/sent");
Google Mutt and Raspberry Pi, there are lots of good tutorials, the mutt
setup is the same for the BBB as it is for the Pi. I'm using it on both my
BBW and Rpi2.
On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 10:01:44 AM UTC-5, volk...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> 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
>
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