---
title: SMTP
description: Instructions on how to add e-mail notifications to Home Assistant.
ha_category:
- Notifications
ha_iot_class: Cloud Push
ha_release: pre 0.7
ha_domain: smtp
ha_platforms:
- notify
ha_integration_type: integration
---
The SMTP platform allows you to deliver notifications from Home Assistant to an e-mail recipient.
To enable notification by e-mail in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
- name: "NOTIFIER_NAME"
platform: smtp
sender: "YOUR_SENDER"
recipient: "YOUR_RECIPIENT"
```
Check your e-mail provider configuration or help pages to get the correct SMTP settings.
{% configuration %}
name:
description: Setting the optional parameter `name` allows multiple notifiers to be created. The notifier will bind to the service `notify.NOTIFIER_NAME`.
required: false
type: string
default: notify
sender:
description: E-mail address of the sender.
required: true
type: string
recipient:
description: Default E-mail address of the recipient of the notification. This can be a recipient address or a list of addresses for multiple recipients.<br>This is where you want to send your E-mail notifications by default (when not specifying `target` in the service call). Any E-mail address(es) specified in the service call's `target` field will override this recipient content.
required: true
type: [list, string]
server:
description: SMTP server which is used to send the notifications.
required: false
type: string
default: localhost
port:
description: The port that the SMTP server is using.
required: false
type: integer
default: 587
timeout:
description: The timeout in seconds that the SMTP server is using.
required: false
type: integer
default: 5
username:
description: Username for the SMTP account.
required: false
type: string
password:
description: Password for the SMTP server that belongs to the given username. Make sure to wrap it in double quotes; e.g., `"MY_PASSWORD"`.
required: false
type: string
encryption:
description: Set mode for encryption, `starttls`, `tls` or `none`.
required: false
type: string
default: starttls
sender_name:
description: "Sets a custom 'sender name' in the emails headers (*From*: Custom name <example@mail.com>)."
required: false
type: string
debug:
description: Enables Debug, e.g., `true` or `false`.
required: false
type: boolean
default: false
verify_ssl:
description: If the SSL certificate of the server needs to be verified.
required: false
type: boolean
default: true
{% endconfiguration %}
### Usage
To use the SMTP notification, refer to it in an automation or script like in this example:
```yaml
burglar:
alias: "Burglar Alarm"
sequence:
- service: shell_command.snapshot
- delay:
seconds: 1
- service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
data:
title: "Intruder alert"
message: "Intruder alert at apartment!!"
target:
- "my_intruder_alert@example.com"
data:
images:
- /home/pi/snapshot1.jpg
- /home/pi/snapshot2.jpg
```
The optional `target` field is used to specify recipient(s) for this specific service call. When `target` field is not used, this message will be sent to default recipient(s), in this example, my_intruder_alert@example.com.
The optional `html` field makes a custom text/HTML multi-part message, allowing total freedom for sending rich HTML emails by defining the HTML content. In them, if you need to include images, you can pass both arguments (`html` and `images`). The images will be attached with the basename of the images, so they can be included in the html page with `src="cid:image_name.ext"`.
The optional `images` field adds image attachments to the email. If `html` is defined, the images need to be added to the message in-line as described above (and as shown in the example below). If `html` is not defined, images will be added as separate attachments.
<div class='note info'>
When adding images, make sure the folders containing the attachments are added to `allowlist_external_dirs`.<br>See: [Setup basic documentation](/docs/configuration/basic/)
</div>
```yaml
burglar:
alias: "Burglar Alarm"
sequence:
- service: shell_command.snapshot
- delay:
seconds: 1
- service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
data:
message: "Intruder alert at apartment!!"
data:
images:
- /home/pi/snapshot1.jpg
- /home/pi/snapshot2.jpg
html: >
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Intruder alert</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<style type="text/css">
@font-face {
font-family: 'Open Sans';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 300;
src: local('Open Sans Light'), local('OpenSans-Light'), url(http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v13/DXI1ORHCpsQm3Vp6mXoaTZS3E-kSBmtLoNJPDtbj2Pk.ttf) format('truetype');
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;
font-weight:400;
margin:10px 0
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="jumbotron jumbotron-fluid" style="background-color: #f00a2d; color: white;">
<div class="container py-0">
<h1>Intruder alert at apartment!!</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 px-0">
<img class="rounded" style="width: 100%;"
alt="snapshot1" src="cid:snapshot1.jpg" />
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 px-0">
<img class="rounded" style="width: 100%;"
alt="snapshot2" src="cid:snapshot2.jpg" />
</div>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</body>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</html>
```
To learn more about how to use notifications in your automations, please see the [getting started with automation page](/getting-started/automation/).
## Specific E-Mail Provider Configuration
Check below some configurations examples for specific e-mail providers.
If you are in doubt about the SMTP settings required, check your e-mail provider configuration or help pages for more information about its specific SMTP configuration.
### Google Mail
A sample configuration entry for Google Mail.
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry for Google Mail.
notify:
- name: "NOTIFIER_NAME"
platform: smtp
server: "smtp.gmail.com"
port: 587
timeout: 15
sender: "YOUR_USERNAME@gmail.com"
encryption: starttls
username: "YOUR_USERNAME@gmail.com"
password: "YOUR_APP_PASSWORD"
recipient:
- "RECIPIENT_1@example.com"
- "RECIPIENT_N@example.com"
sender_name: "SENDER_NAME"
```
Google has some extra layers of protection that need special attention. You must use [an application-specific password](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833) in your notification configuration.
If any of the following conditions are met you will not be able to create an app password:
- You do not have 2-step verification enabled on your account.
- You have 2-step verification enabled but have only added a security key as an authentication mechanism.
- Your Google account is enrolled in Google's [Advanced Protection Program](https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/).
- Your Google account belongs to a Google Workspace that has disabled this feature. Accounts owned by a school, business, or other organization are examples of Google Workspace accounts.