EG with e-mail support for error messages....

[krambriw]

Hallo,

I was searching the term "mail" but couldnt find what I was looking for....

What about to add e-mail support to EG?

If there are error conditions detected by EG and shown in the log I would like to send (selected) alerts to my email (handy).

It would be ok with a script but an email plug-in would be great

Best regards, Walter

[krambriw]

Bump

[Bartman]

You should be able to send mail with a hand full lines of python code. I have a python script sending mail outside EG. I can test if it runs within EG.
But there is no special event for errors. There is no common behaviour on errors in the plugins.
I have thought about asking for a special eventtype for error too...

[krambriw]

Hallo Bartman,

Yes, this would be interesting to build something on.

In my case, and I believe others too, I run EG 24/7/365 and it would not be nice if it stops (I even have another software monitoring that EG is running...) and therefore it would be very important to know if for instance my script stops executing.

With your script for email it might be possible to do something like this;

Lets say you have a main script that is running (on timer or scheduler). The script also updates a counter or toggles a flag every time it executes. This flag is defined as an eg.global variabel.

Your mail script runs also on timer/scheduler and if it recognizes that the counter/flag has been the same for a couple of runs, it could send a mail.

Of course this only monitors your main script but its better then nothing...

Best regards

[krambriw]

Dear Bartman,

Have you made any tries regarding sending mail from EG?
Do you have a sample script you could publish?

BestR Walter

[Bartman]

I totally forgot about it.

Code: Select all

import smtplib

def mail(to, text, subject):
    headers = "From: \"your name\" <[email protected]>To: %s\r\nSubject: %s\r\n\r\n" % (to, subject)
    message = headers + text
    mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.address.com")
    mailServer.login("user", "password")
    mailServer.sendmail("[email protected]", to, message)
    mailServer.quit()
    
mail("recipient", "EG Test", "subject");

Make sure you replace all the placeholders

[krambriw]

Thanks a lot Bartman,
BestR Walter