Trouble trying to setup mail on rasberry pi

[andyross34]

Hello i have been trying to be able to alert myself through email if motin is dectedted through my camera, i have been following this tutorial : http://iqjar.com/jar/sending-emails-fro ... pberry-pi/

I hit trouble when it wants me to edit the SSMTP configuration file:

nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

I just get Permission denied when i try to save as that file, i wasn't sure how to be able to edit it ? i believe i've edited it before so that is why it wont let me but does anyone know a solution ?

thanks

[RogerFulcher]

Use:-

sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

[andyross34]

Worked thank you

Now im stuck again, sorry, At this point:

"You should create one line for all the users in your system from which you plan to be able to send emails. For example:

root:root@your.domain:smtp.gmail.com:587
www-data:yourwebpagesname@your.domain:smtp.gmail.com:587"

Im not sure how to write this: My email is andyross324@gmail.com but d o i write this as follows ? :
root:root@andyross324@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587

Then not sure what to put for the "www-data...... etc" at all ?

[B.Goode]

Reread the tutorial you are following.

The sample configuration line you are querying is NOT in ssmtp.conf, it is in revaliases

Googling for information about this file finds useful hits, including this one - http://www.boristheengineer.co.uk/slug/ ... _ssmtp.htm

This shows that the format of the revaliases file is:

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# Format: local_account:outgoing_address:mailhub