On Tue, September 22, 2009 3:25 pm, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>> I'm a total xmail newbie so I'm struggling a bit with the basics.
>>
>> I am trying to set up xmail on an embedded platform running linux.  The
>> machine in question will collect information and periodically email a
>> status report via a smarthost.
>>
>> The platform has a sporadic connection to the outside world.
>>
>> I'd like to configure xmail to
>> 1) spool any email it receives from the internal network
>> 2) on connection, run the queue (this will be handled by the ifup
>> script)
>>
>> The smarthost uses TLS and requires authentication.  How do I configure
>> xmail to do that?
>
> Do you really need a mail server to do that?
> You can just collect your information and shoot an email to the smart-host
> when the connection comes up (via post-up scripts).
> IMO no need to setup a mail server.

I've been struggling with that. But the smarthost requires TLS
authentication, and what with spooling the messages and then sending them,
it's a bit of a stretch for me to write all that in a script.  Plus the
whole thing of retries if the connection goes down in the middle of a
transmission, and all that.

I was hoping to find a ready-made solution and nothing else seems to
support both spooling and SSL and presumably retries if the message send
fails.

--Yan

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