# Setting up email notification

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-email-notification/109094>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 29, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-email-notification/109094 "2025-07-29T17:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Whitlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@Daniel\_Whitlock](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Daniel_Whitlock)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-email-notification/109094/1 "2025-07-29T17:47:16Z")

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I'm working on the gold cert practice test, and I'm trying to test my alarm pipeline. I have my actual email in an operator role and an admin role. This pipeline should be actually sending me emails right? I have it set up to be the active pipeline in my pump alarms too

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Why am I not getting emails?

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**Author:** ![kvane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kvane/32/22228_2.png) [@kvane](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kvane)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-email-notification/109094/2 "2025-07-29T19:07:43Z")

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From the screenshots, whenever the alarm goes active I would expect the "Operators" roster to receive an attempt at notification via the "Email" profile.

Do you have the Notification Blocks set to [test mode](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/alarm-notification/alarm-notification-pipelines/pipeline-blocks/notification-block#email-settings) true? I would avoid dealing with real SMTP emails unless you are 100% that the SMTP connection is working and won't cause issues. Test mode prints out to the Gateway Webpage \> Status \> Logs page.

Make a simpler alarm (ie Boolean), and a simpler pipeline (no expression) with test mode if it still seems to be an issue.

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Whitlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@Daniel\_Whitlock](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Daniel_Whitlock)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-email-notification/109094/3 "2025-07-29T20:33:09Z")

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I can see the alarms in the active pipelines in the alarm pipeline view. I wish I could set it up to actually email me, but they do seem to be executing.

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**Author:** ![kvane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kvane/32/22228_2.png) [@kvane](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kvane)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-email-notification/109094/4 "2025-07-29T21:37:23Z")

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If you don't have an SMTP server available , this is a tool we use in class to simulate the SMTP server end of notification examples:

> **[GitHub - ChangemakerStudios/Papercut-SMTP: Papercut SMTP -- The Simple Desktop Email Server](https://github.com/ChangemakerStudios/Papercut-SMTP)**
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> Papercut SMTP -- The Simple Desktop Email Server

It works when installed on the server along with an Ignition Email Notification profile, with host "localhost" port "25" to use Papercut.