Simple shell based smtp client... really simple..

I first found email as part of cygwin.   This is a quick and simple tool for sending email.  I use it to send status messages and attaching scheduled reports from shell scripts.  it just works.  no fuss, no local mta setup.

I've installed, it into Ubuntu server, and Raspbian and had it work, as well as using it regularly in Cygwin.  The man page is really thorough.  There are optional config files, but I typically specify everything on the command call, just personal preference.

My quick script for installing dean jone's email program, based on his site. (ok, i added a line to get the parts to compile, otherwise it's his commands to pull and build.  Being that this blog serves as my personal annotated bookmarks, I hope he doesn't mind)

#!/bin/bash sudo apt-get install git gcc make git clone --recursive https://github.com/deanproxy/eMail.git cd eMail ./configure make sudo make install
In my scripts, I put the following at the top

email_from_address=some@email.address
email_from_name="someones name"
email_server=address or ip
email_port=a port
email_recipients=someoneelse@email.address,different@server.elsewhere

and then where I want to send email,

echo "
 message here 

white space is sent so layout your message as you want it
to look

great!
" | email -n $email_from_name -f $email_from_address -s "subject" -r
$email_server -p $email_port $email_recipients


that's it..

If bcc is needed, do --bcc before the final recipients list and and a list of recipients

A NAS with a Raspberry Pi: Part 1 - the drives

First, this isn't going to be linux standard.  I have constraints, 1)  NTFS formatted external drives, 2) only one partition per physical drive, and 3) a mixed OS network.


my steps:

1) upgrade everything first. optional, but it's my preference

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo reboot

2) install ntfs drivers.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

3) find my external drive 

sudo fdisk -l

gives info including :

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk0p1            8192      122879       57344    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2          122880    62333951    31105536   83  Linux
 
and 

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048  1953523711   976760832    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

The last one is my external drive.  

4) find the serial for the drive

sudo udevadm info -a -q all -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sda1)
 
yields:

E: ID_SERIAL=ST31000528AS_9VP500HC

which becomes 

ENV{ID_SERIAL}="ST31000528AS_9VP500HC "

which is important, especially as I'm using two identical drive models. the serial the cleanest way to differentiate between them.


ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

gives (among others)

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan  1  1970 7420568A205652EA -> ../../sda1
 


create "/home/81-external-drive1.rules"


KERNEL=="sd?1", ENV{ID_SERIAL}="ST31000528AS_9VP500HC", SYMLINK+="drive1" ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd?1", ENV{ID_SERIAL}="ST31000528AS_9VP500HC", RUN+="/bin/mkdir /mnt/drive1 && /bin/mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=1000,gid=100 /dev/disk/by-uuid/7420568A205652EA /mnt/drive1" ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd?1", ENV{ID_SERIAL}="ST31000528AS_9VP500HC", RUN+="/bin/umount /mnt/drive1 && /bin/rmdir /mnt/drive1"

copy it to /etc/udev/rules.d/81-external-drive1.rules

5) restart udev

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart 

6) mnt/drive1 should exist and be browsable

7) reboot 

sudo reboot

8) should still be browsable 

9) repeat for drive2.