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 :

Using ssmtp to send mail using gmail.

2011-02-19 1 min read Fedora Linux

First install the package ssmtp using the command:

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      sudo yum install ssmtp
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Open the configuration file for ssmtp as root user:

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      vim /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
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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 :