How can I use e-mail notification inside my own scripts ?

Hi all,

I know, that OMV can be configured to sent notifications via e-mail.

I would be interested, how I can use this mechanism inside my scripts.

I have a backup script, that is executed every night using cron.

I know, that I can sent the output from cron via mail, but I am only interested to get a notification it the backup has a problem.

I can handle all this inside my script, but I don't know, how I can "hand over" some information, that get's then sent to me using the built in mechanism of OMV.

Any help or pointers to some documentation would be highly appreciated.

Thanks, quack

sounds like this is completely ignoring the OMV mechanism.

I would like to do it "the most OMV" way.

If I change the recipient in the Web-UI, I would like that this changed recipient gets used in the mail i send.

Thanks for clarification. Wasn't aware of it.

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly

(or maybe I could not communicate clearly enough, what I am looking for)

I tried the above method (echo "foo bar" | mail -E -s "Mail from administrator" root), but it didn't do what I expected.

I try to explain again, what I am looking for:

In the Web-UI at "System / Notification / Settings" I have configured an e-mail recipient.

I am looking for a way to send an e-mail to *that* recipient in the Web-UI.

Using the above method, i did not receive an e-mail at that address.

I am looking for a command, that is implicitly using that e-mail address at "System / Notification / Settings".

(and if I happen to change that address, the command should then send to the changed address, without changing the command)

Am I missing something, or was the above method not suitable for that purpose?

Sorry, but I'm not sure, if I understand what you are refering to.

I try to make it the most specific, I can.

Let's say I have configured as recipient "OMV-Box@yahoo.com"

Consequently I have Yahoo configured as my mail provider (SMTP Server, incl. Username and Password).

All I want to do is sending an e-mail to OMV-Box@yahoo.com using the SMTP-Server at Yahoo.

(which is all configured in the settings tab)

I had expected, that there either is an existing command, that I can simply use, and that automatically forwards some arbitrary message to OMV-Box@yahoo.com.

Or that I maybe need to read the e-mails address, the SMTP server (incl. username and password) from some internal database and then using all that information to put together a command for sending that mail.

Something similar to the command you or votdev were mentioning. But I'm not sure how to provide the SMTP Server (incl. username and password) to such a command, since this is usually covered by some background service.

That's why I thought, there should already be something in place, that I could use.

And even if I need to look up (only) the recipient (i.e. OMV-Box@yahoo.com) somewhere, to put together the mailx command, I currently don't know, where that would be stored.

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The mailx command will use the postfix settings which is the smtp server you set in the notifications tab.

ok, that I do understand and it is how I expected it to work.

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The "root" in the command is the recipient.

That is the part I don't want. I don't want to send to the local root user. I want to send it to omv-box@yahoo.com, but without the need to set it manually in the command.

Reason behind that is, that I will probably forget that I hard coded an email address in one of the scripts. If I change the recipient in the settings tab in the future (maybe because I change the mail provider), I will no longer get notified if the script fails.

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The email will be sent using the "Sender email" email address.

This is ok and also expected.

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Is there a reason you can set the "Sender email" to the email you want to receive it at?

I assume you meant "can't set"?

No, this is exactly what I want to do. I am setting the the recipient in the settings tab.

This is working for mails sent by OMV itself.

I simply want to use the same mechanism from within my scripts.

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Otherwise you will just have to change the recipient manually.

And this is what I want to avoid. I don't want to set it manually.

I will do it, if there is no other way. But I assume there is...

It works now. I tried it with both variants (mail and mailx), both work.

Must have made a mistake the first time...

Thanks for your patience.

In the meantime even the very first test message appeared.

I'm really sorry for having bothered you.