raspberry pi - send email on startup (will need gmail account to send from)

startup_mailer.py

import subprocess
import smtplib
import socket
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
import datetime
# Change to your own account information
to = '[email protected]'
gmail_user = '[email protected]'
gmail_password = 'yourpassword'
smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.ehlo
smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_password)
today = datetime.date.today()
# Very Linux Specific
arg='ip route list'
p=subprocess.Popen(arg,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
data = p.communicate()
split_data = data[0].split()
ipaddr = split_data[split_data.index('src')+1]
my_ip = 'Your ip is %s' %  ipaddr
msg = MIMEText(my_ip)
msg['Subject'] = 'IP For RaspberryPi on %s' % today.strftime('%b %d %Y')
msg['From'] = gmail_user
msg['To'] = to
smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, [to], msg.as_string())
smtpserver.quit()

Hey @bereshr1! Is there any chance you are using two step verification on your gmail account? That could be the issue.

@bereshr1, I just had this issue and needed to allow less secure devices to access gmail. You can look here for that setting: here

found the solution and modified johnantoni's script. just tested and worked !

Hello! Sorry if i bring up this old thread but i get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/code/startup_mailer.py", line 21, in <module>
    ipaddr = split_data[split_data.index('src')+1]
ValueError: 'src' is not in list

Any idea of how to fix it?

The 'src' is not in list is caused by python3. Try python2 instead.