Need email server aid

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, April 23, 2010 08:39 AM, Chuck Kuecker wrote:
> Alvin Thompson wrote:
>> On 04/22/2010 06:23 PM, Chuck Kuecker wrote:
>>
>>> It worked with the IP, not the domain name.
>>>
>>> I still need to get it to work with an outside address, so I guess I
>>> need to fiddle with my DNS server next.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help!
>>>
>>
>> If you just need 'mail.ckent.org' to resolve to your local address, just
>> put it in your '/etc/hosts' file, or whatever the equivalent is on you
>> embedded system.
>>
>> BTW, if it's an embedded system that never leaves your network, why do
>> you need it to work with an outside address?  Why can't you just use the
>> local IP?
>>
>>
> Ultimately, this will be a wireless product that will be out in the
> wild, and will need the capability to connect anywhere, assuming the
> user has an email account on the network, somewhere in the world. At
> present, I'm just playing with basics using the built-in Ethernet port
> included with the development system.

Then it will need to have to ability to be told to use smtp 
authentication, username and password, to be told what port to connect 
to and support ssl on port 465 and enabling tls on port 25/587.

Ultimately, I think it will more often tha not just need to be told to 
connect to the owner's ISP mail relay to send email.

Besides that, why would it need the ability to accept email? I can 
understand sending reports, alerts, blah, out but accepting email?