Now, if you have followed these :
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 🙂
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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:
Continue readingIf you want to use sendmail so that you can send all your mails from the local system to your email address, then you have to use sendmail. Now, configuring sendmail has never been that easy and if you are working internally on your corporate network then for sending mails to the same domain, generally you don’t have to login. That being the case, you can use something simpler like “sstmp“. Install ssmtp with:
Continue readingI was trying to get templates to work on evolution and found that although templates are there in evolution mail client, its not that efficient to use. What I thus wanted was to have something that could allow me to send mails to (and cc and bcc) to specified people with predefined template, only some values changed, like changelog and so on. So I wrote a set of files and below files to achieve the same. Hope it helps you too 🙂
Continue readingOn my personal <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/client" title="Client (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29">desktop at home, I like to see the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/statistics" title="Statistics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics">statistics at least once a day, for what was installed, what was run with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sudo" title="Sudo" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sudo.ws/">sudo and other such details like <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/kernel" title="Kernel (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computing%29">kernel errors.
Running this monotonously every day is quite boring, so comes to rescue is logwatch. I have <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/installation" title="Installation (computer programs)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_%28computer_programs%29">installation so I will talk about the location with respect to that so for your distribution it might be a little different.
Continue readingIf you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down).
#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================# FILE: checklinks.sh
# USAGE: ./checklinks.sh
# DESCRIPTION: Check if the links exists on affiliate sites
# OPTIONS: —
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# REQUIREMENTS: —
# BUGS: —
# NOTES: —
# AUTHOR: <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in">Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
# COMPANY: Individual
# VERSION: 1.0
# CREATED: 04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST
# REVISION: —
#===============================================================================
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There is a very nice little utility or rather SMTP client program called sendmail (<a href="http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/">Link — http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/).
This can be used in Windows or Linux or any other OS with perl installed and few other perl modules installed. Its quite easy to use and comes in quite handy to send emails.
In later posts we will see how we can use this in various ways : sending mail from your browser, from your editor or even from the command line or shell script.
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