[BusyBox] sendmail for small systems

[Dzuy Nguyen]

It's not going to be practical to include sendmail in an embedded
system.  It has no business to.  You might want to re-think your
strategy.  You will need a mail server to relay for you mail client.

Running a smtp server is not that simple.  You don't want your
embedded box to handle bounce or queue messages (unless you have
a large disk).  Even if you can run a smtp server on the box, many mail
servers will reject your messages if your embbedded box does not
have an MX record i.e. being a real mail server itself.

John Daz wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your response. Mail is currently sent using
> 
> the method you mentioned. However, I need to have the
> client look up MX records and automatically find smtp
> servers (the way sendmail does) so users only have to
> specify email addresses instead of smtp servers. For
> example, I want to use the program (or library)
> something like this:
> 
> "sendmail-program busybox at mail.codepoet.org < 
> report.txt"
> 
> to send a report to busybox at mail.codepoet.org. I don't
> want users to specify smtp servers.
> 
> Best Regards,
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Wim Vinckier <wimpunk at tisnix.be> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I would rather check the code of a mail client, not
>>a mail server.  You 
>>only need something like "telnet smtpserver 25" and
>>send the correct 
>>words to the server to get your mail send... unless
>>I misunderstood your 
>>question...
>>
>>John Daz wrote:
>>
>>>Dear Friends,
>>>This is not directly related to busybox but I will
>>>take the shot anyway. I am working on an linux
>>>embedded system
>>>that needs to send reports out via email. Does
>>
>>anyone
>>
>>>know of any small software package that works like
>>>sendmail? It only has send messages directly to
>>
>>email
>>
>>>addresses, no relaying or mail recipt is needed.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>John
>>>
>>>
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