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SMTP Instructions on how to add e-mail notifications to Home Assistant.
Notifications
Cloud Push pre 0.7 smtp
notify
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:

# 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.
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:

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.

When adding images, make sure the folders containing the attachments are added to allowlist_external_dirs.
See: Setup basic documentation

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.

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.

# 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 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.
  • 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.