Disclaimer : You own what you do with this script, and are responsible for it. This script could cause problems with SMTP / mail server administrators, and you should be sure to get any use approved. I make no claims about the scripts fitness for any specific use.

I have several servers that are not allowed to communicate with the outside world. Often times this helps a lot, but it can be a pain when trying to send e-mail alerts. Combine that sometimes I’m not root on these boxes so I can’t simply change the postfix/exim/qmail/sendmail default relay server to something.

The work around is this script, which uses a hard coded SMTP server, so you’ll need to edit the script to change the from, to, and the smtp servers IP.

I haven’t set it to take arguments, as I rarely re-use it for different things. Let me know if you’d benefit from that and I’ll throw them in.

Here is the script in gzipped format

Here is the code of the script :

#!/usr/bin/python
#Author : jon@jonzobrist.com
#License : BSD/public/freeware

import smtplib
import sys

def prompt(prompt):
return raw_input(prompt).strip()

fromaddr = “noreply@example.com”
#toaddrs = ['userA@example.com','userB@example.com','Phone1@txt.att.net','Phone2@txt.att.net','userC@example.com']
toaddrs = ['userA@example.com']
subject = “[ALERT] Alert from localhost”

msg = (“From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\nSubject: %s\r\n\r\n”
% (fromaddr,toaddrs,subject))
msg = msg + sys.argv[1]
server = smtplib.SMTP(‘server.ip.or.hostname’)
#server.set_debuglevel(1)
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg)
server.quit()

Enjoy!