[PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email
tim at wescottdesign.com
tim at wescottdesign.com
Sun Mar 4 22:55:07 UTC 2018
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!"
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