I've created a script in order to receive a mail with wan ip information and GPS location of my macbookpro. The content of the script is this:
#!/bin/bash
# -*- ENCODING: UTF-8 -*-
if [ ! -e /tmp/ip ]; then
curl -s icanhazip.com > /tmp/ip
fi
curl -s icanhazip.com > /tmp/ip2
newip=$(diff /tmp/ip /tmp/ip2 | wc -l)
if [ $newip -ne 0 ]; then
mv -f /tmp/ip2 /tmp/ip
date > IPlog.txt
curl -s icanhazip.com >> IPlog.txt
sudo ./Downloads/whereami >> IPlog.txt
mailx [email protected] < IPlog.txt
rm IPlog.txt
else
rm /tmp/ip2
fi
Every minute the sistem executes this script that verifies if the wan ip has changed. If it has changed, the script send me a mail with the new information. The problems are:
1.- The mail is not always correctly sent. Sometimes I don't reveive it.
2.- The mail isn't contain all the info. Sometimes it includes only the new wan ip adress.
3.- Sometimes the mail is qualified as spam and I don't know why because the sender is always the same adress.
I have some suggestions to debug your problems.
First you should use a different location to store the ip than tmp. If your system wipes your tmp folder on boot and your system gets a new WAN ip after boot you would loose the previous recorded ip.
Check the exit code of mailx when sending using $?. 0 is ok. You could do a while loop and keep trying to send it until you get exit code 0.
You could add the info for the mail to a local variable instead of a file.
IPLog=`date`
IPLog+=`curl -s icanhazip.com`
The spam problem might be due to the IP address in the mail. Or whatever ./Downloads/whereami is adding to the file. Adding the sending email address as a trusted sender might do it.
Check the email header for information about spam score.