Re: Emailing from a daemon process
Re: Emailing from a daemon process
- Subject: Re: Emailing from a daemon process
- From: Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:01:02 -0700
> On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:44 AM, Carl Hoefs <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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>> It seems a bit odd to me that I can connect all sorts of little network devices (webcams, network monitors, remote power switches, etc) to a LAN and they can all be set to issue email.
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> The manufacturers are probably running their own SMTP servers, and the devices either talk to those directly, or (more likely) send HTTP requests to the manufacturer’s web server, which then formats the email and sends it to the SMTP server.
I seem to recall that in the distant past I accomplished issuing emails from a daemon process on Linux by directly interfacing to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Is this the 'Postfix mail tools' you mentioned?
-Carl
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