Email tool

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I just started using Mikrotik routers. I need help in using the email tool, I tried using some of the scripts, for example the one that sends backups, but it seems that it does not work, may be because I haven’t setup the email correctly.
I use gmail, so can somebody tell me how to set it up in my 433AH router board, and how to test it.
Thanks!

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The big issue is not what the recipient email address is, rather what local SMTP server will you use.

So what you have to do is a two part procedure;

  1. Find out if a non SMTP Authentication SMTP server exists on your ISP network. Then get the IP of that.

  2. Then open a new terminal window in winbox and type the following;
    /tool e-mail set server=1.2.3.4 from=valid_email_address

You need a valid email address (or at least a valid domain) because your SMTP server may check this. Also 1.2.3.4 represents the IP of your local SMTP server.

Then once that’s done, you can send a test email like this;

/tool e-mail send to=you@gmail.com subject=test body=hello

Hope this helps.

3

I just set that script up.
Heres what works for me, I have my own email server so yours will very.

:log info “backup beginning now”
:global backupfile ([/system identity get name] . “-” . [/system clock get time])
/system backup save name=$backupfile
:log info “backup pausing for 10s”
:delay 10s
:log info “backup being emailed”
/tool e-mail send to=“user@domain.com” subject=([/system clock get date] .
" Backup") from=“router@domain.com” file=$backupfile server=mailserveriphere
:log info “backup finished”

4

thanks a lot guys for your help!
It worked just fine!!!

5

Nick, I tried the script. It creats the file OK, but when it tries to email it, i get on the log the folling error: "Error sending email: abnormal termination (timeout). The file is 1063.8 KiB.
Any idea on what can i do? ..
Thanks

6

File might be a little to big.
mine are around 400kb

Make sure that your email server ip in the script is right and that it doesn’t require auth.

7

I tried sendig a samller file and it does it all right!, so the problem must be the file size.
Thanks Nick.