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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?

Thanks

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.

Any steps on how I do that?

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.

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.

- Thomas

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

Would you mind sharing how you achieved that?

Thanks

Would you mind sharing how you achieved that?

Screenshot example:
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- Thomas

That’s mega helpful thank you.

Did you have to do much config on smtp2go?

Nothing unusual at smtp2go; just create your free account.

- Thomas