Most Basic EEM Script to Send E-mails

[jasocole09]

I have read through various blogs and Cisco posts and still cannot seem to get this to work.  I am simply trying to get the router to send the "show ip int br" info via e-mail from a G-Mail account to a G-Mail account.  I am wondering if this is unsupported because G-mail uses TLS/SSL and different ports and I can't seem to defined this anywhere.  Can anyone confirm?

I manually run the EEM script via "event manager run IPAddressNotify".  I have made sure that the router can ping "smtp.gmail.com" (IE IP reachability and name-lookups are successful). 

event manager environment _email_to test1@gmail.com
event manager environment _email_server gmailusername:password@smtp.gmail.com
event manager environment _email_from gmailusername@gmail.com

event manager applet IPAddressNotify
event none

action 1.0 info type routername
action 1.5 cli command "enable"
action 2.0 cli command "show ip int br"

action 8.0 mail server "$_email_server" to "$_email_to" from "$_email_from" subject "Router reload - IP Address info for $_info_routername" body "$_cli_result"
action 9.0 syslog msg "E-mail was sent"

[Joe Clarke]

You're between a rock and a hard place here.  You can't use these double '@' in applets and Tcl scripts don't support TLS/SSL.  So, if you can't use clear text SMTP with GMail, then you won't be able to send email with Tcl, and if you have to use an '@' in your username, then you won't be able to send email with an applet.

Let's say you don't have an '@' in your username.  Then you can use an applet, but you need EEM 3.0 to send encrypted email, and you need 3.1 as I recall to use a different port.  The additional options are "port" and "secure".  If you don't have them for "action mail" then your device is not running new enough code.

[jasocole09]

Joseph,

Thanks for the info!  This is perfect.  Can you verify that my logic is clear, just so I know I am interpreting this correctly.

Right now, my IOS version does NOT support the "secure" and "port" parameters for EEM.  Since G-Mail does NOT support unencrypted SMTP (verified), there is no way that I can use EEM or TCL to e-mail myself messages.  Correct?

When you state that my username cannot have an '@' in it, is this referring to the 'from' field which would be "gmailusername@gmail.com"? Or, is this referring to the 'server' field which would be "gmailusername:password@smtp.gmail.com".  Luckily, Google lets me authenticate by specifying 'gmailusername', rather than 'gmailusername@gmail.com'.  This should work then correct?

[Joe Clarke]

You may want to have a look at https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12364956/problem-eem-tcl-smtp-function .  This user found a helpful hint to get GMail working.  Plus, you'll see the Tcl code example you'll need to use the '@' in your username.