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Email Notifications

#1 Post by Lifesigns » 23 Mar 2022, 22:43

Hi All,

Read various posts on here and online about setting up email notifications on the ES8266 NodeMCU with ESP Easy mega-20211224.

Just looking to setup email notifications either via Gmail or GMX.

Any thoughts?

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#2 Post by TD-er » 23 Mar 2022, 23:19

Gmail only supports encrypted connections, so unless you setup a relay on some other host, you cannot use it directly from ESPEasy as we don't (yet) support TLS.

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#3 Post by Lifesigns » 23 Mar 2022, 23:56

Any steps on how I do that?

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#4 Post by TD-er » 24 Mar 2022, 08:20

Depends on what system you're using.
For example a Linux host (e.g. Raspberry Pi), or some external service like smtp2go (that one was mentioned in a few issues lately, so not sure if that's still working without TLS)

For raspberry pi (when searching for "mail relay raspberry pi") I found this one: https://raspberrytips.com/mail-server-raspberry-pi/
No idea how well it does work, but it was one of the first hits in Google.

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#5 Post by ThomasB » 24 Mar 2022, 16:26

After my ISP host turned off non-secure email last year I found myself in the same situation. I considered using one of my RPI's as a mail server, but for simplicity I ended up using a free account on smtp2go.com. It forwards notifications to my preferred email address.

Works well, now all my ESPEasy devices can phone home.

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#6 Post by Lifesigns » 24 Mar 2022, 17:51

I had looked at smtp2go earlier though wasn’t sure how I’d configure it.

Would you mind sharing how you achieved that?

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#7 Post by ThomasB » 24 Mar 2022, 18:15

Would you mind sharing how you achieved that?
Screenshot example:
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Re: Email Notifications

#8 Post by Lifesigns » 24 Mar 2022, 18:20

That’s mega helpful thank you.

Did you have to do much config on smtp2go?

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#9 Post by ThomasB » 24 Mar 2022, 18:52

Nothing unusual at smtp2go; just create your free account.

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