Need email server aid

[Alvin Thompson]

On 04/22/2010 11:26 AM, Chuck Kuecker wrote:
> Which species of base64 encoding do I want? Wikipedia shows several
> associated with email.

Chuck, it would likely be far easier to just include a lightweight SMTP 
server locally on the device and take advantage of one of the billion 
SMTP libraries out there for whatever language you're working with.

Since all you need to do is send mail from the device and not accept 
mail (you can still *receive* mail if you want by getting it from the 
server via POP or IMAP), and since you only need to accept connections 
locally, configuration should be easy. There are many very lightweight 
SMTP servers available for this use case. Why make more work for yourself?

Just make sure you get an SMTP server that includes a mail queue for 
reliability (that excludes "ssmtp" and "esmtp" for example). 
"Nullmailer" comes to mind. Nullmailer's configuration is dead simple: 
you just specify the embedded device's name in /etc/mailname (this will 
also be the domain part of the "from" address for your mail unless 
otherwise specified), and specify your mail server address 
(mail.ckent.org) in /etc/nullmailer/remotes.

Hope this helps,
Alvin