Recommend Mail service for SMTP Component

ptdalen · September 24, 2018, 3:58pm

Anyone have any recommendations for SMTP servers they use and find them to be solid.

I set up the compoment a few weeks ago using Gmail, and it seems to stop working after a few days. Sometimes a restart of HA gets it going again. Not sure whats going on but I suspect that maybe it’s gmail?

Really just looking for how well this component is working for others with Gmail. I was thinking about moving it to outlook.com just to see, but could not find thing in the forums about people using it so thought I’d start here.

clyra · September 24, 2018, 4:50pm

Hi,

How are you using gmail? I have a vm with postifx wich uses gmail as relay, and it’s running for a few years without problems.

ptdalen · September 24, 2018, 5:06pm

Sorry, I’m not 100% sure what you mean? I’m just using the SMTP component, and using Gmail as the SMTP server.

clyra · September 24, 2018, 5:34pm

Sorry… I think my setup doesnt apply to you. I have a vm on my network that works as a mail server for the others, so the other machines never sends email directly to the internet. Anyway, I have been using the gmail as a relay for a while, so the problem may not be the gmail.

silvrr · September 24, 2018, 5:36pm

I use gmail for notifications and it has been rock solid for me. Are you getting any errors in the log?

ski522 · December 14, 2018, 3:26pm

Resurrecting an old post because for some reason as of about a week ago gmail stopped working for me. I have moved over to outlook which seems to be working fine. Not sure why gmail stopped but wasn’t in the mood to troubleshoot further.

silvrr · December 14, 2018, 3:36pm

Gmail is working for me still, no recent changes. I get a daily e-mail so I know its working.

config is here:

github.com

SilvrrGIT/HomeAssistant/blob/master/notification.yaml#L12


#https://home-assistant.io/components/notify/



####################################################

#                                                  #

#                NOTIFICATIONS                     #

#                                                  #

####################################################



#https://home-assistant.io/components/notify.smtp/



  - platform: smtp

    name: Home_Assistant

    server: smtp.gmail.com

    port: 587

    sender: !secret notification_sender

    starttls: true

    username: !secret notification_username

    password: !secret notification_password

    recipient: !secret notification_recipient



  - platform: smtp

The secrets are nothing special, just gmail e-mail addresses. The password is an app specific password.

ski522 · December 14, 2018, 3:54pm

I did google’s security check up and I have a sneaky feeling that is what stopped gmail from working for me. Not a big deal since my main email account is with outlook anyways and after making that change this morning it appears to be working fine.