> On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:44 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> It seems a bit odd to me that I can connect all sorts of little network >> devices (webcams, network monitors, remote power switches, etc) to a LAN and >> they can all be set to issue email. > > The manufacturers are probably running their own SMTP servers, and the > devices either talk to those directly, or (more likely) send HTTP requests to > the manufacturer’s web server, which then formats the email and sends it to > the SMTP server.
I seem to recall that in the distant past I accomplished issuing emails from a daemon process on Linux by directly interfacing to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Is this the 'Postfix mail tools' you mentioned? -Carl _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
