[arm-allstar] Email gateway

[Robert Newberry]

It's not that I have a "need" I just really enjoy bells and whistles!

I just know how everyone carries a smartphone now. I like that allstar has
bridged that gap quite nicely anytime I can bridge that gap with a feature
is worth looking into.

N1XBM
Apparare Scientor
Paratus Communicare
Allstar Node # 27086, 41540, 41812

On Apr 15, 2015 2:41 PM, "Christopher Kovacs" <w0anm73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> N1XBM
>> Apparare Scientor
>> Paratus Communicare
>> Allstar Node # 27086, 41540, 41812
>>
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