Sending email based on GPIO status

[mattg31]

Hello,

I'm new to Rasperry pi but have some arduino experience, and am hoping someone can point in me in the right direction for a project I want to build.

I would like the Rasperry pi to send an email automatically when a GPIO pin goes from low to high.

also, Ideally I would like to connect a touch screen to the Rasperry pi that will have a GUI prompting the user to enter their email address, which the email would be sent to.

Can someone point me in the right direction with some highlevel steps I could take to do this, and I can research from there.
Which software(s) or topic(s) should I research to get started?

Thanks in advance!!

[bobbydurrett]

I followed the steps here to get email working from the command line:

http://www.raspberry-projects.com/pi/so ... end-emails

Maybe you could use these steps to get mail working if you have not already.

I ended up creating a gmail account just for this purpose since it has you store your email account password in a file.

Bobby

[mattg31]

Thanks!