# 1. SMTP Email Notifications

The first notification system we will setup for Proxmox is by simply using SMTP Email. It is assumed that you already have an email setup somewhere with access to the SMTP credentials. The first thing we will do is setup an email **Notification Target**

1\. Open up your PVE dashboard and go to Dashboard > Notifications > +Add > Select SMTP

2\. Then give it a name i.e the name of your email provider

3\. Check which Email SMTP settings your provider uses. As an example if you have an email with porkbun then you can find their [Email configuration](https://kb.porkbun.com/article/146-email-client-configuration-settings) online. This should be the same for other providers.

4\. With that information fill in the SMTP settings accordingly

5\. Fill in your username i.e email address and password

6\. Then select your recipient(s) which are all users with an account on your proxmox instance

7\. Finally, you can also choose to have Additional Recipients that don't have an account on your instance.

8\. If all good then it should look something like this

[![Screenshot From 2026-07-02 19-59-31.png](https://docs.rfeyn.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-07/scaled-1680-/fVLobJouVj0X1kLC-screenshot-from-2026-07-02-19-59-31-png.png)](https://docs.rfeyn.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-07/scaled-1680-/fVLobJouVj0X1kLC-screenshot-from-2026-07-02-19-59-31-png.png)

9\. Sweet now what you will do is send yourself a Test notification to check if it actually works

10\. You can do this by simply selecting your newly created SMTP entry and select "Test"

11\. Now, what is next is that we need to make sure it is activated at