In this tutorial, I will explain how to configure an SMTP server on Proxmox to receive email notifications.
Table of Contents
Configure an SMTP server in Proxmox
Go to Datacenter / Notifications.
Click on the Add button 1 then on SMTP 2.
Name 1 the configuration, configure the SMTP server 2, enter a sender email address 3, select the recipient(s) 4 and click Add 5.
SMTP server configuration is added.
Test the configuration
To ensure proper operation, we will test the configuration.
Select configuration 1 and click on the Test button 2.
Confirm sending the test notification by clicking Yes 1.
Close the window that confirms sending the notification by clicking OK 1.
Check that you have received the Test notification from Proxmox.
Configure default SMTP notifications
Finally, we will modify the default rule so that notifications are sent by the SMTP service.
In the Notifications Matchers area, select default-matcher 1 and then click the Modify 2 button.
In the Notifications Matchers area, select default-matcher 1 and then click the Modify 2 button.
In this tutorial, we saw how to configure an external SMTP server in Proxmox and configure the notification system to use it.
