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My reaction: now we live in a world where a web service is necessary to send yourself email from a full-featured device connected to a local network. Yeesh. Lon
by fn-mote 2y ago
My reaction: now we live in a world where a web service is necessary to send yourself email from a full-featured device connected to a local network. Yeesh. Longing for the old days of sendmail and self hosting.
- didgeoridoo 2y agoNot sure it’s “necessary” — you could probably get this working with sendmail (assuming it’s available on RPi Pico, I have no idea) but I think the assumption is that, at this point, we’re all a lot more familiar with POSTing to URLs.
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoBut email spam has gotten so much better /s
- dmd 2y agoNot sure what you mean by 'full featured' - this is a microcontroller, with no OS. That said, yes, I could have had it talk SMTP directly - there is a SMTP library that works in MicroPython - but I figured I'd rather be able to do some stuff "in the middle", and not have to update the device itself. For instance, I might decide I want to have it consolidate all the messages into a single email. I can do that easily by updating my endpoint, without having to ever touch the device. And the endpoint is self-hosted, by the way.
- tdeck 2y agoShameless plug, but if you want to send emails to yourself for free you can use the free API I created for that purpose. Then at least you don't need to write the web service :) https://varmail.me https://varmail.me
- nozzlegear 2y ago"Necessary" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.