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rockedge, thank you!
Super useful!
I am going to try this out.

I realize much of this is because of my inexperience with ZoneMinder... so thank you for showing me part of your setup!

Will update ASAP!

The attached image shows how I have the Email Filter configured...

It seems to be working as desired.
I will update this thread with any "fine tunning" as I gather more experience with ZoneMinder.

Hello, I had some problems when I installed ZoneMinder initially. So I reinstalled Ubuntu 16.04 from zero. Did you follow the steps in this link exactly as he states it? The only thing I would skip of those steps is: Secure MySQL. mysql_secure_installation and apt-get install mysqltuner Other than ...

Hello, I just read this entire page: http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/userguide/filterevents.html Yet I am still unsure how to accomplish what I want. How can I have ZoneMinder send me an email as soon as an event is triggered? After reading that page, I am more confused. Should I set it ...

Jesus christ allmight it worked. Everything was this link . A guy in the comments states: Anyway smtp_use_tls=yes is obsolete and superseded by smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt. OP could do without it So I changed that line out in /etc/postfix/main.cf commented out #smtpd_use_tls = yes The inserted ...

Ok, I installed postfix. I am tailing /var/log/mail.log and I am getting: Dec 12 22:19:54 zoneminder postfix/smtp[8105]: 431CE1632E4: to=<MYGMAIL@gmail.com>, relay=smtp.gmail.com[74.125.141.109]:587, delay=0.27, delays=0.1/0/0.12/0.04, dsn=5.7.0, status=bounced (host smtp.gmail.com[74.125.141.109 ...

Thank you for the reply!
The EMAIL_HOST I have it set to "localhost".

If I try the
telnet localhost smtp

It returns that it's unable to connecdt to remote host: Connection refused.

Did I miss something basic?

Bump.
Any help please?
I am not progressing on this issue.
Any suggestions as to what to try?

Well, from this link: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/How_to_get_ssmtp_working_with_Zoneminder I am supposed to get the file: /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl With the lines like the following: ### Send the Message #MIME::Lite->send( "sendmail", $Config{ZM_EMAIL_HOST}, Timeout=>60 ); $mail->send('sendmail','/usr ...

Ok, I am not getting progress. If I try to send an email from the command line, I run: # echo "Hello world!" | mail -s "My email check #3" MYGMAILACCOUNT@gmail.com And it works perfectly. I receive the email. I am tailing /var/log/syslog, and it shows: Dec 8 22:40:07 zoneminder sSMTP[11131 ...

Just found some additional information that might help here::
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/ ... leshooting
I am going to try this and will report back.

Hello everyone! Recently installed ZoneMinder. Just upgraded to 1.30.0 I am following this guide on how to setup emails ... If I send a test email from the command line, it works. Yet if I "force" an alarm, it doesn't work. I am tailing /var/log/syslog, and I get this: Dec 7 22:27:17 zoneminder ...