[arm-allstar] Email gateway

[Christopher Kovacs]

In the lastest version of the weather scripts (for RPi2 and next version of
BBB), I did introduced a sendmail utility.  This is a python script that
will send a file or information. This is a sendmail utility to send mail
via a Google email account and not a general OS sendmail interface.

sendmail.py -s <subject> -e <Email_Addr> [-i <inputfile>]

The issues with any email is configuration  and forwarding.  Unless you
have a dedicated sendmail smart relay, it's hard to properly configure
sendmail. ISP provide a number of security and spam measures that can block
email.  I have had limited success with setting up *postfix* sendmail
utility  going to an ISP provider. At one point, all my email was being
blocked.

So, if you have the need for sending email, I would look into the latest
weather scripts in the RPi2 or the up an coming BBB beta release.

73,

Chris

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Robert Newberry <N1XBM at amsat.org> wrote:

> Just spit balling ideas here. Would it be possible to have an email
> gateway on our nodes? We already have the text to speech converter for the
> weather script.
>
> How hard would it be to use a Gmail account for your node to be able to
> receive a simple email to be read over the air.
>
> On a similar note I use one of Kyle ' s (K0KN) script for email. I get
> node status emailed to me. I also have the ability for my users that have
> an iax account with an assigned extension. If I make an autopatch to that
> extension and their zoiper client isn't on I can leave a voice mail that
> the node will emailes to them.
>
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