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MichaIng / DietPi

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FeatureRequest: Sending E-Mail for System Events #2663

Open Gill-Bates opened 5 years ago

Gill-Bates commented 5 years ago

Hello, it would be cool if Dietpi sent critical system events by e-mail. Is there already a function for this? I would be happy to design the HTML mail templates for it.

UserStory: I store SMTP crendentials and Dietpi sends e-mails for the following events, for example:

MichaIng commented 5 years ago

@Gill-Bates Many thanks for your request again.

Hmm this would require a new tool, e.g. dietpi-system_monitor which regularly checks these values and either logs them (optionally only in case of critical value) or send by email. However then we need an email client or MTA. We already though about such some time ago and found msmtp some time ago: https://packages.debian.org/msmtp-mta Or even without full MTA: https://packages.debian.org/msmtp

Btw Netdata also support such: https://docs.netdata.cloud/health/notifications/email/ Of course it might be an overkill and especially monitors many network related stats as well, but I think you could configure it to only show the desired data.

Gill-Bates commented 5 years ago

Wow. Netdata would be an overkill. Dietpi Template.zip

MichaIng commented 5 years ago

@Gill-Bates Looks beautiful, thanks for this.

Lets see when I can do a start on the monitor script. However to raise priority, feel free to add this request to our FeatHub page: https://feathub.com/MichaIng/DietPi/

muibusan commented 5 years ago

Here's the link to the said feature request: https://feathub.com/MichaIng/DietPi/+65

MichaIng commented 3 years ago

ssmtp seems to be the absolut minimal solution btw, but I'm not sure if it can be configured (easily) to send mails via modern mail providers/SMTP servers.

DietPi and available APT package updates could trigger an email as well. It should be somehow combined with the banner. E.g. the line which currently informs about DietPi or APT updates could be replaced with the events of a daily check which includes temperature/voltage/corruption warnings.

Gill-Bates commented 3 years ago

ssmtp seems to be the absolut minimal solution btw, but I'm not sure if it can be configured (easily) to send mails via modern mail providers/SMTP servers.

Should be possible: https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/hc/en-us/articles/205407478-Set-Up-SSMTP-for-Mail-Relay-to-AuthSMTP

dpantel commented 1 year ago

@MichaIng FYI, ssmtp is unmaintained and your first instinct of using msmtp was correct. cheers.