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SMTP in Home Assistant

smtp part of Home Assistant since pre 0.7

Cloud, push Set up in the user interface Quality: Platinum

SMTP is an official Home Assistant integration for Notifications. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud; changes arrive straight away, but only while the internet connection and the service are up.

Facts about this integration

Compatible with Home Assistant
yes, official integration
Connection
Cloud, push – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud; changes arrive straight away, but only while the internet connection and the service are up.
Setup
in the user interface
Kind
Online service
Quality scale
Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
Installations
11,894 (1.7 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Notifications
Provides
Notifications
Maintained by
@tr4nt0r
Python packages
aiosmtplib==5.1.3

Setup

  1. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  2. Click "Add integration" and search for SMTP.
  3. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Known issues and fixes

4 open issues and 8 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for SMTP in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.10.3.

Open

  • open Reported problem #178359 since August 6, 2026 · 4 reactions · 7 comments · #178359
  • open Reported problem #181046 since September 2, 2026 · 3 reactions · 4 comments · #181046
  • open Reported problem #176362 since July 12, 2026 · 0 reactions · 2 comments · #176362
  • open Reported problem #185664 since October 10, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #185664

Fixed

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of October 27, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.

Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →

Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration

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