Re: [beagleboard] How to use Exim4 to Send Email from Beaglebone Black Debian

2016-04-21 Thread Dieter Wirz
Create the file .muttrc eg in /root/ or in /home/debian/ (the user that wants to use mutt) and add a line set smtp_url="smtp://user:passw...@smtp.someserver.com" And don't forget the return after this line. (as in crontab as well) * * * * * root ls /somefolder | mutt -s ""

Re: [beagleboard] How to use Exim4 to Send Email from Beaglebone Black Debian

2016-04-20 Thread John Baker
Dieter, I'm trying to get mutt running to get error messages from crontab. I installed mutt with aptitude and it may be working but I don't know how to set it up to get the messages :-[ Apr 20 23:49:01 beaglebone /USR/SBIN/CRON[8657]: (root) CMD (export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/python

Re: [beagleboard] How to use Exim4 to Send Email from Beaglebone Black Debian

2015-05-27 Thread Dieter Wirz
If you only want to send mail, install mutt With mutt u can use any SMTP server, and mutt comes with its own;-) On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:09 PM, tcb2 tchadwic...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently gotten Exim4 to send mail from the BBB with Debian, using the Gmail SMTP server. (I tried using

[beagleboard] How to use Exim4 to Send Email from Beaglebone Black Debian

2015-05-26 Thread tcb2
I've recently gotten Exim4 to send mail from the BBB with Debian, using the Gmail SMTP server. (I tried using the BBB as the server with SMTP port 25, but my ISP [Comcast] blocks that port to prevent spam.) I am running code to monitor a sensor, and wanted an email alert to me at certain