Sending an Email

Projects Programming
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Hi,

I have been looking into sending an email from an UNO for a while now, but I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out where to start. I have looked over some old posts on here from 2009 But I couldn't get that to work, so i kept searching on the internet for a way to do it but again no luck, everywhere seems to say that arduinos are not able to do it.

The reason I'm looking into this is to send a small piece of data (only a 20 char string) to my phone.

Does anyone have any pointers they could give me ? is emails even the right way to go ?

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But I could get that to work, so i kept searching

Generally, when you get something to work, the time has come to stop.

everywhere seems to say that arduinos are not able to do it.

It depends on how vulnerable your e-mail system is to spam attacks. If it is highly vulnerable, the Arduino can send an e-mail. If it is not, the Arduino doesn't have the processor power to deal with the necessary encryption/decryption.

The reason I'm looking into this is to send a small piece of data (only a 20 char string) to my phone.

As an e-mail? Why? A text message is nowhere near the same thing.

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Sorry about that, typing error.

What type of emailing system can the arduino handle?
I'm guessing it cannot handle anything commercial like Hotmail, Gmail ECT ??

The reason I have to use an email here is because the GSM shields don't work on the mobile phone networks in Aust.

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You need a network device.

For the ethernet shield:
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/Email

For the WiFi shield:
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/WiFiEmailClient

They work with gmail if you are sending to a gmail account and you are not blocked by gmail's spam filter.