Arduino - Send an email when panic switch was pressed

panic_email.ino

/*

Tihomir Nedev
April 2014
Change the values for the network setting. 
Change the emails. NB! Some sorvers won't accept email for unedentified devices as Arduino.

Hardware: Arduino board + Ethernet shield

*/

#include <SPI.h>
#include <Ethernet.h>


// Set the panic button pin
byte panicButton = 2;
boolean statusCheck=false; 
// this must be unique
byte mac[] = { 0x90, 0xA2, 0xDA, 0x00, 0x59, 0x67 };  
// change network settings to yours
IPAddress ip( 192, 168, 100, 19 );    
IPAddress gateway( 192, 168, 100, 1 );
IPAddress subnet( 255, 255, 255, 0 );

// change server to your email server ip or domain
// IPAddress server( 1, 2, 3, 4 );
char server[] = "mail.example.com";

EthernetClient client;

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(4,OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(4,HIGH);
  Ethernet.begin(mac, ip, gateway, gateway, subnet); 
  delay(2000);
  Serial.println(F("Ready."));
  pinMode(panicButton, INPUT);
}

void loop()
{


  if(digitalRead(panicButton)==HIGH && statusCheck==false)
  {
      if(sendEmail()) Serial.println(F("Email sent"));
      else Serial.println(F("Email failed"));
		statusCheck = true;
  }
  else if (digitalRead(paniceButton)==LOW)
  {
	statusCheck = false; 
  }
}

byte sendEmail()
{
  byte thisByte = 0;
  byte respCode;

  if(client.connect(server,25)) {
    Serial.println(F("connected"));
  } else {
    Serial.println(F("connection failed"));
    return 0;
  }

  if(!eRcv()) return 0;

// change to your public ip
  client.println(F("helo 1.2.3.4"));

  if(!eRcv()) return 0;
  Serial.println(F("Sending From"));

// change to your email address (sender)
  client.println(F("MAIL From: <[email protected]"));

  if(!eRcv()) return 0;

// change to recipient address
  Serial.println(F("Sending To"));
  client.println(F("RCPT To: <[email protected]"));

  if(!eRcv()) return 0;

  Serial.println(F("Sending DATA"));
  client.println(F("DATA"));

  if(!eRcv()) return 0;

  Serial.println(F("Sending email"));

// change to recipient address
  client.println(F("To: You <[email protected]>"));

// change to your address
  client.println(F("From: Me <[email protected]>"));

  client.println(F("Subject: Panic Alarm!\r\n"));

  client.println(F("The panic button was pressed!!!"));

  client.println(F("."));

  if(!eRcv()) return 0;

  Serial.println(F("Sending QUIT"));
  client.println(F("QUIT"));

  if(!eRcv()) return 0;

  client.stop();

  Serial.println(F("disconnected"));

  return 1;
}

byte eRcv()
{
  byte respCode;
  byte thisByte;
  int loopCount = 0;

  while(!client.available()) {
    delay(1);
    loopCount++;

    // if nothing received for 10 seconds, timeout
    if(loopCount > 10000) {
      client.stop();
      Serial.println(F("\r\nTimeout"));
      return 0;
    }
  }

  respCode = client.peek();

  while(client.available())
  {  
    thisByte = client.read();    
    Serial.write(thisByte);
  }

  if(respCode >= '4')
  {
    efail();
    return 0;  
  }

  return 1;
}


void efail()
{
  byte thisByte = 0;
  int loopCount = 0;

  client.println(F("QUIT"));

  while(!client.available()) {
    delay(1);
    loopCount++;

    // if nothing received for 10 seconds, timeout
    if(loopCount > 10000) {
      client.stop();
      Serial.println(F("\r\nTimeout"));
      return;
    }
  }

  while(client.available())
  {  
    thisByte = client.read();    
    Serial.write(thisByte);
  }

  client.stop();

  Serial.println(F("disconnected"));
}

Nope. The cool thing about telnetting into an e-mail server is that credentials are not needed for 'sending' e-mail, just for reading e-mail.

Line 53 has a typo "paniceButton"

Hi guys, has any one tried to use this code to send an email using his/her gmail or yahoo account, and it has worked.
Am new here and really need to use this code for my new Project. Thanks.

Hi guys, I cant connect to the internet. I put
// change server to your email server ip or domain
// IPAddress server( 1, 2, 3, 4 );
char server[] = "Smtp.gmail.com"; because im sending from an gmail.com account
but Im not sre what to put in
// change to your public ip
client.println(F("192, 168, 2, 1"));

please if somebody can help me thanks.

m8a2 Write the arduino ip

nice proyect

Hi all,

I tried the sketch with a gmail account, and got the following in the Serial Monitor:
Ready.
connected
220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP t30sm8108718wra.52 - gsmtp
250 smtp.gmail.com at your service
Sending From
530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. t30sm8108718wra.52 - gsmtp
221 2.0.0 closing connection t30sm8108718wra.52 - gsmtp
disconnected
Email failed

The t30... code is different every time. But the bottom line is that GMAIL apparently requires an additional command: STARTTLS.
Meaning: The smtp server is saying it won't accept plain text connections.

How would I activate this every time when a switch would off?

This is such an awesome and memory-cheap way of sending email - I'm working it into an ethernet relay controller sketch I found elsewhere, works every time.

I have it talking to a local unauthenticated, IP limited postfix server that collects mail for the network. No issues at all.