Email from router

**Googol** · 25-05-2005, 11:35

How do I email from my router? I have Olegs firmware version 1.9.2.7-5a installed on my router. In earlier releases (1.7.x I believe it was) sendmail was installed but I cannot find it any more. What happened to sendmail? Is there another email client available?

**barsju** · 25-05-2005, 11:40

Try mini_sendmail.
B.

**macsat** · 25-05-2005, 12:58

..or you could try with esmtp.

esmtp can be installed using ipkg :

Code:

ipkg install esmtp

You should place a config ( esmtprc ) file in your /opt/etc directory :

Code:

hostname = smtp.isp.com:25
username = "user"
password = "password"

where smtp.isp.com should be your ISP smtp server.
User + password are only important if your ISP smtp server requires this.

now you can use /opt/sbin/sendmail as you would normally use sendmail on your localhost.

**TuTu** · 11-06-2005, 22:21

some mail servers with TTL might require adding "starttls required" into the esmtprc

**kiewer** · 16-09-2005, 17:09

Originally Posted by macsat

..or you could try with esmtp.

I've installed according your tutorial. Installation fine, but when I try to send something like:

Code:

$ echo "Test Message" | sendmail user@domain.com -f user@domain.com

I do not get prompt back. When I try to exit with Ctrl-Z get an error message:

Code:

[1] + CPU time limit exceeded    echo "Test Message" | ...

Tryed to remove and install again. Doesn't help.

Could anybody help?
Thanks.

**kiewer** · 17-09-2005, 09:10

Originally Posted by kiewer

When I try to exit with Ctrl-Z get an error message:

Code:

[1] + CPU time limit exceeded    echo "Test Message" | ...

Tryed to remove and install again. Doesn't help.

Could anybody help?
Thanks.

May be it is normal behavior on pressing Ctrl-Z (stop job), but nevertheless esmtp doesn't work.

**kiewer** · 18-09-2005, 08:49

Now tryed with port 587 instead of port 465 and there is some update on my problem with esmtp and gmail.com (google) account:

with /opt/etc/esmtprc (doesn't matter whether starttls = enabled or required):

Code:

hostname = smtp.gmail.com:587

username = "xxxxxxx.x@gmail.com"
password = "xxxxxxx"
starttls = enabled

result:

Code:

$ echo "Test Message" | /opt/sbin/sendmail  xxxxxxxx.x@gmail.com
Invalid peer certificate (error 20)
0 (null)
xxxxxxxx.x@gmail.com: 0 (null)

and with following /opt/etc/esmtprc:

Code:

hostname = smtp.gmail.com:587

identity = "xxx@xxxxx.xxx"
        username = "xxxxxxx.x@gmail.com"
        password = "xxxxxx"
        starttls = enabled

result:

Code:

$ echo "Test Message" | /opt/sbin/sendmail  xxxxxxxx.x@gmail.com
0 (null)
xxxxxxxx.x@gmail.com: 0 (null)

and no emails arrive to google.

I've also found in Internet an advice to use stunnel especially for getting working esmtp with google account, but may be there is a more simple solution?

**likeapear** · 18-04-2006, 07:19

Originally Posted by kiewer

I've installed according your tutorial. Installation fine, but when I try to send something like:

Code:

$ echo "Test Message" | sendmail user@domain.com -f user@domain.com

I do not get prompt back. When I try to exit with Ctrl-Z get an error message:

Code:

[1] + CPU time limit exceeded    echo "Test Message" | ...

Tryed to remove and install again. Doesn't help.

Could anybody help?
Thanks.

Exactly same problem as you described. Do you have solved it?

**oleo** · 18-04-2006, 07:33

There is no need to install any package for sending mail. There is utility in Oleg firmware called mini_sendmail which can send simple mail messages.

Code:

usage:  mini_sendmail [-f<name>] [-t] [-s<server>] [-T<timeout>] [-v] [address ...]

**likeapear** · 18-04-2006, 07:47

Originally Posted by oleo

There is no need to install any package for sending mail. There is utility in Oleg firmware called mini_sendmail which can send simple mail messages.

Code:

usage:  mini_sendmail [-f<name>] [-t] [-s<server>] [-T<timeout>] [-v] [address ...]

Great! I will try it.

**likeapear** · 20-04-2006, 09:43

Originally Posted by oleo

There is no need to install any package for sending mail. There is utility in Oleg firmware called mini_sendmail which can send simple mail messages.

Code:

usage:  mini_sendmail [-f<name>] [-t] [-s<server>] [-T<timeout>] [-v] [address ...]

Tried it. Working perfectly, but I dont know how to set the subject, sender name and recipients addresses...

Code:

echo "huhu" | mini_sendmail -fmyrouter -smysmtpserver.com address@domain.com

...sends the e-mail with blank subject, sender is address@domain.com and recipients are undisclosed-recipients:;

What to do???

**Hellish** · 22-04-2006, 18:37

Originally Posted by likeapear

Tried it. Working perfectly, but I dont know how to set the subject, sender name and recipients addresses...

Code:

echo "huhu" | mini_sendmail -fmyrouter -smysmtpserver.com address@domain.com

...sends the e-mail with blank subject, sender is address@domain.com and recipients are undisclosed-recipients:;

What to do???

What sre the arguments? What is myrouter and waht is mysmtpserver?
Does that mean you have to have an email server/smtp server installed on the router?
If so, how does it send webcam alerts then whithout the WAN connected?

**sodb** · 23-04-2006, 21:04

Code:

echo -e "From: test@test.com\nSubject: this is the subject\nReply-to: reply@server.com\nHere goes the mail body" | mini_sendmail -fnotused@ -ssmtp.server.com recipient@testide.com

where -e option in echo interprets special \n character as a newline. The -f option in mini_sendmail does not seem to be used at all.

**oleo** · 24-04-2006, 07:41

-f option is used when talking to SMTP server. It should be a valid username to bypass antispam and other filters.

If no -f arguments are given admin@hostname is used and this is not a valid domain for most SMTP servers.

mini_sendmail(8) mini_sendmail(8)

NAME
mini_sendmail - accept email on behalf of real sendmail

SYNOPSIS
mini_sendmail [-f<name>] [-t] [-s<server>] [-T<timeout>] [-v] address
...

DESCRIPTION
With no flags, mini_sendmail reads its standard input up to an end-of-
file and sends a copy of the message found there to all of the
addresses listed.

The message is sent by connecting to a local SMTP server. This means
mini_sendmail can be used to send email from inside a chroot(2) area.

-f Set the name of the "from" person (i.e. the sender of the mail).

-t Read message for recipients. To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines will be
scanned for recipient addresses. The Bcc: line will be deleted
before transmission.

-s Specify the the SMTP server to use. Without this it uses local-
host.

-T Specify timeout - defaults to one minute.

-v Verbose mode - show the conversation with the SMTP server.

SEE ALSO
sendmail(8)

AUTHOR
Copyright © 1999 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@acme.com>. All rights reserved.

12 July 2001 mini_sendmail(8)

**Hellish** · 25-04-2006, 21:42

Thanx for the reply. I got it finally working. Though I am trying to send myself email when router restarts that means I set the destination email address and the email address after the -f option to the same (my own address).
When I get the message from my mail account and view it in my mail client the "Message from" field is empty. But I guess that is done by the mail server as it (as I suppose) does this automatically for mails that are sent from and to the same address.

Thanx for your help and for explaining the parameters

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