sending mails by ip.sh not working - problem solved

Hardware Little Backup Box
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Hello,

at first: Thank you, Little Backup Box is just great!
I tried to configure mail by editing “Settings” in web UI. It took my a while to understand, why mails not have been sent: config.cfg was in DOS-format and included multiple “\r”.

I didn’t figure out yet, where this format-problem came from. From my side, there was no Windows/DOS around. But everything went well after this changes:

sudo apt-get install dos2unix -y

In ip.sh I added the line dos2unix “$CONFIG”:

CONFIG_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
CONFIG="${CONFIG_DIR}/config.cfg"
dos2unix "$CONFIG"
source "$CONFIG"
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I think I found the error: After cloning from github config.cfg is larger than it is after dos2unix. So the original file seems to be in dos-format, right?

pi@raspberrypi:~/tmp/scripts $ git https://github.com/dmpop/little-backup-box.git ./
pi@raspberrypi:~/tmp/scripts $ cd scripts/
pi@raspberrypi:~/tmp/scripts $ cp config.cfg config.cfg.dos2unix
pi@raspberrypi:~/tmp/scripts $ dos2unix config.cfg.dos2unix 
pi@raspberrypi:~/tmp/scripts $ dos2unix: converting file config.cfg.dos2unix to Unix format...
pi@raspberrypi:~/tmp/scripts $ ls -la config.cfg*
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 683 Jun 26 07:31 config.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 668 Jun 26 07:32 config.cfg.dos2unix

Editing the original file by Settings causes the same problems like above.

3

Hi,

Thank you very much for reporting the issue and providing a solution! :slight_smile:

I have no idea why the config.cfg file is in the DOS format (I use nothing but Linux). But I’ve included you fix into the source code.

Kind regards,
Dmitri

4

Hi,
Sorry for disturbing you, but I’m not able to get the Mail feature to work with my gmx or gmail account.
No Mail is send.
I setup LBB today, so the fix should be included…
In your Book i couldn’t find an explanation to this feature.

5

When did you install Little Backup Box? A bug that prevented sending email was fixed about two weeks ago.

Also, I don’t know for sure, but GMX may not allow you to use their SMTP servers. I’ll try to see if Gmail works.

Kind regards,
Dmitri

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4 Hours before I wrote you :wink:
I tried 2 installations yesterday to very the Mail and the IP Issue (wich I postet as Issue on Github).

7

Yeah, I tried Gmail, and it didn’t work for me either. I’m inclined to put the blame on Google. Do you have another (proper) SMTP server you could try?

Kind regards,
Dmitri

8

I testet Hosteurope - same…
I would create a new Mailaccount for that if you could tell me a working service Provider…

9

Do you have access to a Linux machine, or can you SSH to the Raspberry Pi running Little Backup Box?

10

I’m using a mac - and of course I can use ssh

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Could you try to run the following command on the Raspberry Pi (replace capitalized placeholders with actual values) and post the output here?

curl --url smtps://SMTP_SERVER:SMTP_PORT --ssl-reqd --mail-from USER_NAME --mail-rcpt MAIL_TO --user USER_NAME:MAIL_PASSWORD -T <(echo -e "From: USER_NAME\nTo: MAIL_TO\nSubject: Test\nIt works")

12

I get this in return:

curl: (35) error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

13

Could you try this:

curl --url smtp://SMTP_SERVER:SMTP_PORT --ssl --mail-from USER_NAME --mail-rcpt MAIL_TO --user USER_NAME:MAIL_PASSWORD -T <(echo -e "From: USER_NAME\nTo: MAIL_TO\nSubject: Test\nIt works")

14

Same Error…

SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

15

Could you give me your SMTP server address and port?

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You received a dm