Dieter, I'm trying to get mutt running to get error messages from crontab. I installed mutt with aptitude and it may be working but I don't know how to set it up to get the messages :-[
Apr 20 23:49:01 beaglebone /USR/SBIN/CRON[8657]: (root) CMD (export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/python /home/debian/Desktop/SimB.py) Apr 20 23:50:01 beaglebone /USR/SBIN/CRON[8690]: (root) CMD (export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/python /home/debian/Desktop/SimB.py) Apr 20 23:51:02 beaglebone /USR/SBIN/CRON[8723]: (root) CMD (export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/python /home/debian/Desktop/SimB.py) Apr 20 23:52:01 beaglebone /USR/SBIN/CRON[8756]: (root) CMD (export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/python /home/debian/Desktop/SimB.py) Setup is described in https://wiki.debian.org/Mutt says there is a muttrc file in "a user's $HOME directory" but I find only unreadable muttrc files elsewhere and I'm not sure I know where and what a "user's $HOME directory" is. 1. Do I need to set up some directory in /home/? 2. Do I need to create a muttrc file to configure mutt? 3. Is there a way to find and read the sent messages? Thanks, John On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 7:44:18 AM UTC-7, Dieter Wirz wrote: > > If you only want to send mail, install mutt.... > With mutt u can use any SMTP server, and mutt comes with its own;-) > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:09 PM, tcb2 <tchadwic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've recently gotten Exim4 to send mail from the BBB with Debian, using > the > > Gmail SMTP server. (I tried using the BBB as the server with SMTP port > 25, > > but my ISP [Comcast] blocks that port to prevent spam.) I am running > code to > > monitor a sensor, and wanted an email alert to me at certain detected > > values. Here are the general steps: > > > > 1. Tell Google that you'll be sending email from your BBB. From a > browser on > > the BBB, sign in to your gmail account at: > > http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha > > > > > > 2. Open port 587. For this you need to be root. Check your iptables > > (firewall) first to see if 587 is already open: > > # iptables -L -n > > > > If not, then > > # iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 587 -j ACCEPT > > > > and, if you don't have any input rules, which is good (see > > > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104954/how-to-allow-outgoing-smtp-on-iptables-debian-linux), > > > > then > > > > # iptables -I INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT > > > > 3. Install and configure exim4 as root. This is the package that sends > the > > email. > > > > # apt-get install exim4 > > > > Now, configure exim as root: > > > > # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config > > in the dialog, answer as follows: > > > > Configuration type mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or > fetchmail > > System mail name localhost > > IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP connections 127.0.0.1 ; ::1 > (to > > refuse external connections) > > Other destinations for which mail is acceptedleave empty > > Machines to relay mail forleave empty > > IP address or host name of the outgoing smarthostsmtp.gmail.com::587 > > Hide local mail name in outgoing mail ?yes > > Keep number of DNS-queries minimal (Dial-on-Demand) ?no > > Delivery method for local mailmbox format in /var/mail/ > > Split configuration into small files ?no > > > > check /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf to see if the file looks like > the > > below, and if not, change it: > > > > dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' > > dc_other_hostnames='' > > dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1' > > dc_readhost='' > > dc_relay_domains='' > > dc_minimaldns='false' > > dc_relay_nets='' > > dc_smarthost='smtp.gmail.com::587' > > CFILEMODE='644' > > dc_use_split_config='false' > > dc_hide_mailname='true' > > dc_mailname_in_oh='true' > > dc_localdelivery='mail_spool' > > > > Then modify /etc/exim4/passwd.client to (substitute your gmail name and > > pwd): > > > > gmail-smtp.l.google.com:yourgmailn...@gmail.com:yourpassword > > *.google.com:yourgmailn...@gmail.com:yourpassword > > smtp.gmail.com:youremailna...@gmail.com:yourpassword > > > > Change permissions, etc > > > > # chown root:Debian-exim /etc/exim4/passwd.client > > # chmod 640 /etc/exim4/passwd.client > > > > restart Exim > > > > # update-exim4.conf > > # invoke-rc.d exim4 restart > > > > > > 4. Test sending mail > > > > you can do this in perl, for example: > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > $to = 'some-email-address'; > > $from = 'yourgmailn...@gmail.com'; > > $subject = 'Test Email'; > > $message = 'This is test email sent by Perl Script'; > > > > open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"); > > > > print MAIL "To: $to\n"; > > print MAIL "From: $from\n"; > > print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n"; > > print MAIL $message; > > > > close(MAIL); > > > > print "Email Sent Successfully\n"; > > > > or another way it to create a file called mail-body.txt: > > > > to : some-email-address > > from : yourgmailn...@gmail.com > > subject : Test mail > > > > This is the first mail sent by my server's sendmail ! > > > > and then do > > > > # cat mail-body.txt | sendmail -t > > > > if mail is not sending, then check /var/log/exim4/mainlog for errors. > > > > # tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog > > > > > > good luck! > > > > -- > > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "BeagleBoard" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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