Emails from the Door Bell Camera

Sending emails from the Raspberry

PiRaspbian configuration

Installing and configuring SSMTP

Make sure your repositories are up-to-date:

sudo apt-get update

Install SSMTP and mail utilities:

sudo apt-get install ssmtp

sudo apt-get install mailutils

Edit the SSMTP configuration file:for Gmail

sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

edit the ssmtp.conf

your GMail address

your GMail addressmatching password

add this 3 lines

Allowing less secure apps to access your accounthttps://support.google.com/accounts/answer/

6010255

2 ways to send an text email

echo "Hello world email body" | mail -s "Test Subject" recipientname@domain.com

mail -s "Message from your Door Bell" recipientname@domain.com < message.txt

body

body

Sending an attachment file

echo "Image attached" | mail -A Maja10.jpg -s “Door Bell" recipientname@domain.com

Building the projectfor

Emails from the

Door Bell Camera

Hardware setupDoor Bell

Raspicam Button Blue Jumper Wire -> Ground Orange Jumper Wire -> Pin 1

Starting Pointcamera with button

Standard image size

The code produces an image with the size of about 2.7MB

Gmail restriction for attachment: 25MB

Inside the C program using the mail command and system function you can

send the mail to the user.

system(“mail -A Maja10.jpg -s ‘Door Bell’ hello@gmail.com < message.txt”)

The final Code

The Email arrivesafter about a minute