ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Jan 12, 2015 4:40 pm #7130 Is it possible to send email from the esp?
I'm tossing around the idea of a temperature based email alert, but not sure about the best approach.

It seems like the slightly round about method would be to set up a form on my router running ddwrt so the esp can send and "submit" a form.

- Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:08 pm #7147 Do you mean send and email from LUA on the ESP8266 or generally send an email

It is possible to send emails, but I'm not sure if LUA has this built in.

You can probably write the code yourself to communicate with an email server, the protocol is not that hard to use. I wrote some code to do it on another AT command based Wifi device a while ago, and posted my pseudo code to another thread on this forum.

Perhaps if you searched the forum you'd find that posting

- Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:53 pm #7150 Yeah I was thinking about having it run in lua so I did the search within the lua subforum.

I'll take a look and see how the code looks. Was thinking about sticking to lua because it just looks easier to code.

- Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:02 pm #7151 Yes. Probably easier to code in Lua.. Even better if it could be added as a Lua command

(But at the moment building Lua from source seems to be somewhat problematic)