[PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

[tim at wescottdesign.com]

On 2018-03-04 12:44, Russell Senior wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Russell Senior
> <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>> What is the purpose of the message?  Maybe you can send a message
>> instead to a central server (e.g. via a UDP packet to a particular
>> port), do some validation on that message (perhaps with public key
>> cryptography) and have the central server send the email for you?
> 
> If the target audience is likely to filter outbound traffic
> aggressively, then using tcp port 80 or 443 is maybe least likely to
> be molested.
> 

Purpose of message: "fix me" or "feed me".  I thought of central 
servers, and then thought "blech!"