Email from router

[Googol]

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]

Try mini_sendmail.
B.

[macsat]

..or you could try with esmtp.

esmtp can be installed using ipkg :

ipkg install esmtp

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

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]

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

[kiewer]

..or you could try with esmtp.

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

$ 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:

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

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

Could anybody help?
Thanks.

[kiewer]

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

[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]

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):

hostname = smtp.gmail.com:587

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

result:

$ 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:

hostname = smtp.gmail.com:587

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

result:

$ 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]

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

$ 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:

[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]

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.

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