Hi,
does anyone here know where I can get a small email client (SMTP) so that I can use the small application in my embedded linux? I want it to be small, without any GUI needed.
anybody who has an idea?

elm: http://www.instinct.org/elm/doc/Users.txt
and mutt: http://www.mutt.org/

are the only two I know of.

There's also Pine.

Assuming this is for scripting and such, you might take a look at the command-line "mail" command that comes builtin to most Unix-like operating systems. I think the most common implementations are called "mailx" and "nail". With these, there's not even any curses interface, although (like Mutt's default configuration) they rely on a local SMTP server to get the message out. [There may be a way to configure that, but I don't know it.]

Another alternative, again assuming a mostly non-interactive nature, would be to simply write a solution in C or Perl or something. It's not too terribly hard to write a program (especially in a language like Perl) to connect to an external SMTP server and send a message. I wrote a small one in Python that essentially forwards Mutt emails to external SMTP servers. I've also written about a ten-liner SMTP client in Ruby.

I am completely happy with sendEmail (I am not *quite* sure about the character case!)

I use it a lot in various scripts which monitor something on my servers. If something interesting happens, I send myself an e-mail messages from the script. It is just one line with a handful of options. It has never failed. However it does need a SMTP server to relay your mail.

jlinkels

//nothing to do wtih networking. moved.