Sending Email
Asuswrt-Merlin includes a cutdown version of sendmail which can be used to send mail from the router. Basic usage will look like this:
echo "This is a test email." | /usr/sbin/sendmail -S"smtp.yourisp.com" -f"[email protected]" [email protected]
You can send a more proper Email by writing the mail to a file, and then piping it to sendmail. The following example, if saved as a wan-start script, will make your router send you an Email whenever the WAN interface comes up, containing the WAN IP:
#!/bin/sh
SMTP="smtp.yourisp.com"
FROM="[email protected]"
FROMNAME="Your Router"
TO="[email protected]"
echo "Subject: WAN state notification" >/tmp/mail.txt
echo "From: \\"$FROMNAME\\"<$FROM>" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "Date: `date -R`" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "I just got connected to the Interwebz." >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "My new IP is: `nvram get wan0_ipaddr`" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "--- " >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "Your friendly router." >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
cat /tmp/mail.txt | /usr/sbin/sendmail -S"$SMTP" -f"$FROM" $TO
rm /tmp/mail.txt
If your SMTP server requires authentication, you can pass them as additional arguments. To see the available options, just run "sendmail -h".
If you don't have a smtp email account from your ISP, JANGO SMTP could be the solution, it ofers 200 emails to send per month for free and should be enough. Just signup for a free account, and after email confirmation, go to Settings/Advanced/FromAddresses and create one or more "from address".
Now just fill your wan-start script with the following lines but don't forget to replace first your-jangosmtp-fromaddress, your-jangomail-username, your-jangomail-password and your-email-address where to receive notifications.
#!/bin/sh
SMTP="relay.jangosmtp.net:587"
FROM="your-jangosmtp-fromaddress"
FROMNAME="ASUS ROUTER"
TO="your-email-address"
ntpclient -h pool.ntp.org -s &> /dev/null
sleep 5
echo "Subject: WAN state notification" >/tmp/mail.txt
echo "From: \\"$FROMNAME\\"<$FROM>" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "Date: `date -R`" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "I just got connected to the internet." >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "My WAN IP is: `nvram get wan0_ipaddr`" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "Uptime is: `uptime | cut -d ',' -f1 | sed 's/^.\{12\}//g'`" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "---- " >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "Your friendly router." >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
cat /tmp/mail.txt | /usr/sbin/sendmail -S"$SMTP" -f"$FROM" $TO -au"your-jangomail-username" -ap"your-jangomail-password"
rm /tmp/mail.txt
It's possible to send emails even from Gmail account through openssl (thanks Nerre), first we need to download a trusted certificate
wget -c -O /jffs/configs/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.pem http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/certificates/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.pem
Now fill your wan-start script with the following text but don't forget to replace FROM, AUTH, PASS and TO values only in first six lines of the script
#!/bin/sh
FROM="your-gmail-address"
AUTH="your-gmail-username"
PASS="your-gmail-password"
FROMNAME="Your Router"
TO="your-email-address"
ntpclient -h pool.ntp.org -s &> /dev/null
sleep 5
echo "Subject: WAN state notification" >/tmp/mail.txt
echo "From: \\"$FROMNAME\\"<$FROM>" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "Date: `date -R`" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "I just got connected to the internet." >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "My WAN IP is: `nvram get wan0_ipaddr`" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "Uptime is: `uptime | cut -d ',' -f1 | sed 's/^.\{12\}//g'`" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "---- " >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "Your friendly router." >>/tmp/mail.txt
echo "" >>/tmp/mail.txt
cat /tmp/mail.txt | sendmail -H"exec openssl s_client -quiet \
-CAfile /jffs/configs/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.pem \
-connect smtp.gmail.com:587 -tls1 -starttls smtp" \
-f"$FROM" \
-au"$AUTH" -ap"$PASS" $TO
rm /tmp/mail.txt
After saving the script disconnect and connect again to internet or reboot router and check your email inbox.
