fetchmail to get the mails from your imap account

2014-03-11 1 min read Raspberry Pi
Now, that you have set the RPi to send emails, lets do the next best thing. Setup fetchmail so that we can setup a cron job to run and get us the emails on Raspberry Pi. What can we do with these emails, lots 🙂 (I hope you already have a Raspberry Pi, if not then head over to element14.) For now, first install fetchmail: sudo apt-get install fetchmail and if you are one of the guys who wants easy configuration then : Continue reading

Using ssmtp to send mail using gmail.

2011-02-19 1 min read Fedora Linux
First install the package ssmtp using the command: 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> sudo yum install ssmtp </div> </td> </tr> Open the configuration file for ssmtp as root user: 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> vim /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf </div> </td> </tr> Make the following changes to the configuration file: root=**username**@gmail.com mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587 hostname=**username**@gmail.com UseSTARTTLS=YES AuthUser=username AuthPass=password FromLineOverride=yes In order to make the default (root) “from” field be the server name, edit the /etc/ssmtp/revaliases file as root user : Continue reading