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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] SMTP and busybox?
From:       Steven Scholz <steven.scholz () imc-berlin ! de>
Date:       2003-04-17 8:50:17
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Russ Dill wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 23:36, Steven Scholz wrote:
> 
>>Hi there,
>>
>>has someone considered to implement some SMTP functionality into busybox?
>>
>>My embedded system should be able to send emails.
>>
>>So far I only found libSMTP (which unfortunatly needs glib).
>>see http://libsmtp.berlios.de/
>>
>>Are there other, smaller, better solutions to solve the problem?
>>
> 
> 
> The reason nothing exists is because sending mail (to an smtp server) is
> so incredibly trivial. Read the RFC sometime, sending mail with telnet
> is just as easy as using a mail client. (for embedded purposes, you
> probably want nc)
:o)

Andreas Banze just pointed me to SMTPclient found on

http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/

That's 12kB on MPC8xx. So that's small enough for me. There's probably 
no need to port this to busybox just to same some more bytes !?

Thanks,

Steven

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