Raspberry Pi on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog

fetchmail to get the mails from your imap account

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:18:07 +0000

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 :

Raspberry Pi automate certain tasks – script example

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:41:45 +0000

Now, if you have followed these :

fetchmail

ssmtp

Then you already have a working system for sending and receiving mail. Now, you can set the mda in the fetmailrc to a script which can do few things for you. The script below will get a page and mail it to you, if you have the subject as “get” and send “wake on LAN” to desired PC if you have subject as “wol”. Cool 🙂

ssmtp configuration and installation – raspberry pi.

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:05:58 +0000

English: Extract from Raspberry Pi board at TransferSummit 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To get your email working on your raspberry pi, First thing that you should probably do is to set up outgoing emails from your RPi. The easiest way to do so is with ssmtp.

Install ssmtp:

sudo apt-get install ssmtp

Next configure the ssmtp client to send emails using your ISP, open up the file /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file and make the changes as suggested below: