Sendmail in OH2

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
1

Okay. I’m pretty Close to throw all away. Even th slightest Thing I try does not work.

I’ve installed the mail binding (1.9.0) and configured the mail.cfg with:

# The SMTP server hostname, e.g. "smtp.gmail.com"
hostname=smtp.gmail.com

# the SMTP port to use (optional, defaults to 25 (resp. 587 for TLS/SSL))
port=587

# the username and password if the SMTP server requires authentication
username=somethingb@gmail.com
password=somePW

# The email address to use for sending mails
from=openhab Server

# set to "true", if STARTTLS is enabled (not required) for the connection
# (optional, defaults to false)
tls=true

on top of that I created a rule Myname.rules

rule "send mail for testing"
when 
   Time cron “0 0/1 * * * ?” 
then
   sendMail("destination@provider.com", "This is the email subject", "This is the email body")
end

And this ***** is not working.

Looking at the Karaf log in debug doesn’t show any entry, that the rule gets executed or that an E-Mail is send.

Any help is really appreciated.

2

Hi, seems you are using the wrong type of quotes around your cron expression, try " instead of “
(I copied your code, did indeed not work, I changed the quotes, it worked)

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3

I’m also using a secure Gmail to send. I’m only using ssl and not TLS (and didn’t define the port).

4

these work OK for me: (note email/password details altered)

sendMail("waestach@gmail.com", “Laundry” , “Check for Flood!!”)

and my mail.cfg file

hostname=smtp.gmail.com
port=587
username=waestach@gmail.com
password=wrongone123
from=waestach@gmail.com
tls=true

5

Hi. Thanks for the Reply. Right - the quotes were wrong bit it didn’t work after that either. No signs of sendmail in the logs.
I went for a Devolo Home System and My Troubles have all vanished. Setup was done in not even 30 minutes, and another 15 to set up all rules in the mobile App.

6

the file mail.cfg is stored on my synology nas in a subfolder of @appstore. Because of this i’m not able to modify/configure this file.
Is the a posobility to add an webinterface to modify this file?

7

You can access these files by creating a symbolic link, e.g. “ln -s /volume1/@appstore/openHAB2 /volume1/public/openHAB2”. This is much easier than asking the Openhab developers creating a webui. :slightly_smiling_face: