a light-weight mail alert program via SMTP for notifying IP address changes.
IPMailAlert is a light-weight mail alert program via SMTP for notifying IP address changes.
The IPMailAlert is designed to report IP address changes due to the DHCP dynamic IP address assigning strategy. The IPMailAlert sends you an alert email via SMTP protocol to keep you informed of your current IP address.
| Windows | Linux | |
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| initial version (Oct 1, 2019) | View Release | View Release |
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For Linux users, you can directly run this python script.
For Windows users, you can download the EXE executable.
Python Requirement: netifaces for retrieving IP address on Linux (use pip install netifaces)
The config.json provides you the example of a configuration.
{
"smtp": {
"host": "smtp.seu.edu.cn",
"port": 465,
"username": "tom",
"password": "password"
},
"mail":{
"sender": "tom@seu.edu.cn",
"receivers": ["tom@example.com"]
},
"network":{
"interface": "eth0"
}
}"smtp"shows the settings for SMTP."host": remote (or local) host name or IP address that provides SMTP service."port": listening port for SMTP service.- usually 465 for SMTP-via-SSL, 25 for SMTP.
- For security concern, the current version only allows you to use SMTP-via-SSL to protect your account.
"username": username of your account ."password": password of your account.
"mail"shows the settings for alert mail."sender": the From email address."receivers": the To email addresses receiving the alert mail.
"network": shows the settings for network."interface": the network interface of your host. This config term is specified for linux users. (default:eth0)
You can run the program with the config.json in the same folder, or specify the config path via -C/--config.
For Windows users, it is recommended to use Windows Task Scheduler to set a scheduled task to run this program.
Note: when editing the operation in Task Scheduler, set the Start-in as the directory path of the executable or script.
You should receive an email like this when the IP address of your host changes:
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