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Sounds like a good idea. The smtp.office365.com also works with outlook.com and hotmail.com email addresses or other Microsoft email accounts with free email addresses. |
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Yahoo (TLS) Yahoo (SSL) |
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The only caveat for the settings below is that if you have an Apple ID that is does not end in @icloud.com then you must create an email alias within your apple iCloud account settings (https://appleid.apple.com/account/manage) then select "Email and Phone Numbers" to create an iCloud alias for the apple ID. Use the iclould alias for hte email account, not the non iclould.com email address. This may be the case for other services (i.e. if you use yahoo.com email your email must end in a domain controlled by the SMTP server address) iCloud (TLS) iClound (SSL) |
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The gmail setup is here: https://github.com/jgyates/genmon/wiki/Appendix-M-Tips-and-Tricks-useful-for-Genmon#setup-gmail-for-use-with-genmon |
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I successfully setup my gmail setup and it has been working fine for a couple of years. I noticed I was not getting any emails when my generator did the weekly test and when I tried to send a test email, it gave me the error message. I generated a new app password and it tested good and a few minutes later, same thing, test email error message. Not sure why it is doing this? |
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what is the error? you can look at /var/log/mymail.log for the full error log. Also, what email service are you using? |
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Attached is the error message. I am using gmail. thanks
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what is the error? you can look at /var/log/mymail.log for the full error
log. Also, what email service are you using?
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Images have to be loaded directly in GitHub, they get stripped off when you reply to the email. |
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Ok, here is the error message. I am using gmail. thanks. |
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This happend a few years ago, but could be the source of your problem. Gmail changed the way their accounts worked with apps like genmon. You have to enable two factor authentication on the google account and then use "App Passowrds" within the google account. The link from google in the message thread link above has more info. Hopefully that corrects your problem. If not then I would need more info regarding your mail settings in genmon, your /var/log/mymail.log file, and how you have your gmail account setup (two factor, app password, etc). |
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I already have 2 factor authentication enabled on my google account and also using app passwords within my google account. |
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I also have my cell # entered and that no longer sends me anything. I use t mobile ##########@tmomail.net. |
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use email to SMS will not work if your email is not functioning so that is expected considering your current status. Other than suggesting your password has changed and needs to bee updated I can't offer any insights. When was the last email you got from genmon? Is it possible you made a settings change to your email and are just recently noticing that you don't get emails, but your email stopped working a while ago? I would need to see the file /var/log/mymail.log on the pi |
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as a point of reference, the source file for supporting email has not changed in 2 years and those changes were just adding more debug information. Most people use gmail with genmon so the odds are pretty high that this is something related to your email account. I would be happy to look at the email error log and see if there are any insights but the odds are that the error you are showing in the screen capture are also in the log. Unless you are getting two different errors then the log may not have useful data. |
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I can certainly change my gmail password again. It has been months since I have received an email from genmon. I have not made any setting changes to my email. Gmail |
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have tried rebooting your pi. There may be some issue on your local network between your router and the pi If you log into the pi via ssh you can run this command to display the log Then show get a screen capture of the output. |
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Changing your mail email password will liklly not do anything, try getting a new application password from gmail |
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Google has made its email SMTP services difficult to use because of spam
controls. I’ve given up and switched to AWS. With AWS, you’ll be in a
sandbox, which means you can only send emails to addresses you’ve
verified.
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Changing your mail email password will liklly not do anything, try getting
a new application password from gmail
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That may be true depending on on your use case. I use a dedicated gmail account to send automated messages to primary email account. No other emails are sent. No issues other than when they switched to all accounts must use 2 factor auth, then a quick change to my account and it has been working without a glitch. |
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Well not sure what I did but I rebooted the Pi and also reset the app
password and it has been working for a couple of hours now.
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That may be true depending on on your use case.
I use a dedicated gmail account to send automated messages to primary
email account. No other emails are sent. No issues other than when they
switched to all accounts must use 2 factor auth, then a quick change to my
account and it has been working without a glitch.
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that is great. Is you pi setup to get an IP from the router (DHCP) or is it static? I have seen situations where when using a DHCP address and the router has rebooted but the pi has not. In this case the router issues the IP that was assigned to the pi to a new device and the ARP/routing talbes bet messed up. A reboot typically fixes this problem. If you are using a static IP then I don't have a good guess. |
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Been working for years. 
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That is the same settings I have. |
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Yes, very good news. I am using DHCP and I think you are on the right
track as my router/internet provider seems to go offline quite often. If
it messes up again, I will just reboot the Pi, thanks.
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that is great. Is you pi setup to get an IP from the router (DHCP) or is
it static? I have seen situations where when using a DHCP address and the
router has rebooted but the pi has not. In this case the router issues the
IP that was assigned to the pi to a new device and the ARP/routing talbes
bet messed up. A reboot typically fixes this problem. If you are using a
static IP then I don't have a good guess.
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The router going down is the bigger issue than the ISP going down as the router handles DHCP on your local network, though obviously with the ISP down there is no outgoing connection. Do you have a UPS for your network equipment? That can really help avoid some of these problems. It doesn't have to be a big one, I like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FWAZEIU/ for TVs and such, just to keep the hardware online until the generator kicks in or through all those 2 or 3 second outages. I do recommend getting one that has a USB input port (that one does right next to the power cord) as you can use that to tune the sensitivity if it gets annoyed with your generator. APC is the only consumer grade brand I have have had 100% success with as long as it's this minimum model that can be tuned. |
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Yes, I have a UPS on my router.
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The router going down is the bigger issue than the ISP going down as the
router handles DHCP on your local network, though obviously with the ISP
down there is no outgoing connection. Do you have a UPS for your network
equipment? That can really help avoid some of these problems. It doesn't
have to be a big one, I like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FWAZEIU/ for
TVs and such, just to keep the hardware online until the generator kicks in
or through all those 2 or 3 second outages. I do recommend getting one that
has a USB input port (that one does right next to the power cord) as you
can use that to tune the sensitivity if it gets annoyed with your
generator. APC is the only consumer grade brand I have have had 100%
success with as long as it's this minimum model that can be tuned.
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Then your router shouldn't be rebooting, the router rebooting is likely where your DHCP issues come from. Is it old or bad equipment? |
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I set my Pi / Genmon with a static IP. |
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My ISP is T mobile and all the equipment is 10 months old.
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Then your router shouldn't be rebooting, the router rebooting is likely
where your DHCP issues come from. Is it old or bad equipment?
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I think it could be really helpful for those new to genmon to have a consolidated list of known good configs for different mail servers, with a "last confirmed" date, and any details needed such as if making an app password or app login is necessary and how to do that or a link to an article with the instructions for it. It would also make it easier than trying to search issues for "gmail" configs given how many posts will mention gmail and have nothing to do with configs. I'm happy to share mine:
Office 365 - working 4/6/2024
Email account is full email address
Password is same as webmail password
SMTP Server = smtp.office365.com
SMTP Server Port = 587
Use SSL = OFF
Disable TLS = OFF
Disable SMTP Auth = OFF
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