Best Notification System for Home Servers with Apprise Push Alerts

[@ryanyoung7696]

Thanks for the mention! It's satisfying to know so many people find my little utility useful.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

Ryan, Thank you for your comment! It is so awesome you saw the video. It is a great tool...thank you so much for your contribution to the community!

[@bronze2gold]

It looks like my previous comment got removed because I added a link to the showcase part of my GitHub page (Apprise). I appeared to have broke some terms and conditions by doing this (oops). The reason I did it was to show that added a link back to your KZbin video here (I hope you don't mind). Just a recap; I'm the developer of Apprise ;). Anyway, I'll just thank you again for your kind sharing of my library through this great video. Keep up your awesome work!

[@VirtualizationHowto]

l2g, no worries and certainly don't mind on the link! Thanks again. I also added links to the projects in the description as well. Meant to do that!

[@HannibalBarca218bc]

This stuff is game-changing for some of us. Please keep up the good work!!!

[@OmarDownie]

Fantastic!!! This is exactly what I have been looking for. Your post has been timely and thorough. Thanks Brandon!

[@VirtualizationHowto]

Omar, that is awesome! So glad it came at the right time. It was a timely find for me as well as email is no longer my preferred communication platform.

[@OmarDownie]

@@VirtualizationHowto I'll be switching over to Mailrise this weekend. Thanks again, the rest of your content is also quite helpful. Keep up the good work!

[@bobendicott2877]

This is awesome, I was looking to replace postfix in my lab and this will work perfectly. I decided to use docker and got it working.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

Bob, that is awesome! I have switched everything in my lab to this as well and haven't looked back since. No more email issues with public SMTP, etc. Thank you for the comment!

[@bobendicott2877]

@@VirtualizationHowto Just curious did you get this working with vCenter as I can get emails to send.

[@SyberPrepper]

This is something I should be able to use in a few weeks when I get my home lab reconfigured. I've never heard of this solution so your video is very much appreciated.

[@PaulLittlefield]

This is absolutely superb. I normally use Pushover sent with curl but this system is very interesting, many thanks and great video!

[@AhrenBaderJarvis]

Thank you so much for highlighting this, and for the great content as always, Brandon! This is incredible and what I didn't even know I was needing. Such a great solution.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

Ahren, thanks so much for your kind words! So glad it is helpful and happy labbing!

[@MoguolHossan-z6s]

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[@Practical-IT]

Thanks Brandon. I've started looking into these services after seeing them among the exhaustive list of supported services in Uptime Kuma. This was very helpful.

[@NonyaDamnbusiness]

I use Proton Mail so I just built a tiny Protonmail gateway VM and use that for all my email alerts. Not only is it fast, but since it's Proton and sending to my Proton email account it's all encrypted.

[@SyberPrepper]

This sounds like an interesting solution too.

[@JohnFryerInvisiblade]

Thank you for this! I've been semi-noodling on what to do with an old NAS that only has smtp messaging, and the gmail connection broke cause TLS v1.0. This hit my YT feed just in time!!

[@VirtualizationHowto]

John, that is awesome to hear! Glad this was helpful!

[@DavidC-rt3or]

Thank you! Testing out mailrise configured to send to MQTT for a device that can only send SMTP. So far, have a subscriber setup to take in the message and reformat it to then check to see if the alerting is snoozed or not (configured using a Redis key and TTL) and if it's not, then publish to two topics. One of the topics is for alerting and the other is for logging., if it is snoozed it's only published to the logging topic.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

David, that is awesome!

[@DavidC-rt3or]

@@VirtualizationHowto Thanks! extending now to start taking in Proxmox notifications. Started with successful backup notification to mqtt and the subscriber parse and log it into a MySQL db (email then dropped). Just not sure what other notifications may look like yet in order to parse.

[@paul_M007]

Great video!. Is it possible to make a video setting up WhatsApp notification using the latest appraise revision. appraise added WhatsApp support but my old brain can't wrap around how to set it up. thx

[@omargayle6634]

This is just great content!!!

[@VirtualizationHowto]

@omargayle6634 thank you!

[@djvincon]

When I install pip, and then try to install mailrise with 'pip install mailrise' i get the message: error: externally-managed-environment. Any tips?

[@Pakterius14]

This is a good tutorial and it works with Telegram and Discord but only if i send mails directly to the IP and Port of the Server with PowerShell or Telnet If i use Proxmox or Truenas the Domainname get a resolution to a public IP Adress kinda dumb but i tried manually set the resolution to my Mailrise VM but it still does not work it always sends them to the Public IP of that Domainname that goes to the Github page (and yes i flushed my dns cache) How did you solve that problem?

[@squalazzo]

i think that important services need redundancy... so i'll use this, sure, BUT add other services in parallel, completely unrelated to this (EVERYTHING goes down, sooner or later...), on a different device, to push out same notifications but in different ways, for example a telegram bot...

[@sradhakrishna]

Would I be able to run mailrise on a raspberry pi, specifically the v1.2 version which has 1GB Ram?

[@VirtualizationHowto]

@sradhakrishna I believe it will run on ARM, but will need to take a look. Thank you for your comment!

[@sradhakrishna]

@@VirtualizationHowto I actually went ahead and used the docker version. Seems to run fine. I have pushover working, but can't get telegram working. Got to see what's going wrong. Wonder how it'll perform under load, but works for my workloads. Must say, I am loving it. Imagine a dedicated, old raspberry pi server, running for ever, and sending out notifications. In my case, it's now a core service in my lab!

[@ONWOTE]

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[@ArielLothlorien]

It would be awesome if I could selfhost the whole thing cause I am a spook and have trust issues!

[@VirtualizationHowto]

Eforen thank you for the comment! The cool thing about Mailrise/Apprise is that you could target a self-hosted messaging service. I am just showcasing using Pushover for alerting, but there are many other options you could also self host.

[@ArielLothlorien]

@@VirtualizationHowto do you mean to say apprise itself is not a cloud service just an API service you run somewhere in your own infra??

[@amigahome]

Installing a python package globally/outside a virtual environment is not recommended.

[@c0p0n]

The best notification system I've found hands down is telegram.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

c0p0n thank you for the comment! Telegram is awesome. Good thing too mailrise/apprise will push to telegram as well. So you can telegram-enable SMTP only notifications :)

[@josemercado1674]

My dude. Love you but this vid is incomplete. Anyway you can put out a more detailed setup after we touch those files? seems from that point on you're doing things I can't replicate. And to be honest a majority of those that are watching these videos need step by steps including me. I need more help. Thanks always.

[@5amba]

I can build you a custom iOS App for that, if you like ;)

[@MarkConstable]

Heh, I prefer notifications via email.

[@MrNoBSgiven]

Any support place for mailrise? I followed your steps and... mailrise barfs at me 😜😜. I checked the pushover configuration, was able to use arise command (works like a charm), but sending email.message to my mailrise host... no sugar, no love. The journalctl gives "WARNING:mailrise.skeleton:Unknown recipient:" error. Any suggestions?

[@VirtualizationHowto]

B S thank you for the comment! I would check all your config files. Make sure you don't have a typo somewhere in your pushover config in mailrise so that it knows how to match up the recipient address to the pushover push. It sounds like your traffic is getting to your mailrise server which is a good thing...so I would give your configs a good check once again.

[@MrNoBSgiven]

@@VirtualizationHowto INDEED. I was losing my mind and ....hair. I even opened question with the developer and ONLY THEN I decided to "retype" all spaces in the mailrise.conf file. AND... miracle happened (and I do not mean "Miracle" from the movie "The history of the world - part I") . I fixed it just a few minutes ago. Thank you for suggestion. I ALMOST blamed YOU for this 😜🤣😁. I recreated 4 Proxmox LXC containers, two dockers and all were failing. 🤦‍♂ Thank you for this video.