# Mail notifications

**URL:** <https://forum.pydio.com/t/mail-notifications/1148>\
**Category:** Pydio 8\
**Created:** [May 22, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/mail-notifications/1148 "2018-05-22T12:18:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![seiberte](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/seiberte/32/329_2.png) [@seiberte](https://forum.pydio.com/u/seiberte)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/mail-notifications/1148/1 "2018-05-22T12:18:22Z")

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I am running Pydio 8 community edition on redhat7, php7, mysql/mariadb, nginx …

i am trying to set up the mail notifications and I have PHPmailer-lite installed, I see the plug in is enabled and I am able to sendmail using /usr/lib/sendmail.

I set up and configured:  
Mailer plug-in: PHPmailer-lite  
Mailer : sendmail (i’ve tried both sendmail and mail)  
Mail encoding: Base64

set up a scheduled task to run every hour, the action is consume\_mail\_queue, (have also tried consume\_notification\_queue) and I assign it workspaces, assign the users for the notifications)

after that, I have run the cron job and there are no notifications being sent, but send mail itself does send out test emails.

What could I be missing, I’m not seeing any notifications of files uploaded, directories changing or anything

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**Author:** ![zayn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a87d85/32.png) [@zayn](https://forum.pydio.com/u/zayn)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/mail-notifications/1148/2 "2018-05-22T13:27:14Z")

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Hi,  
sendmail is somewhat weird to setup i tried using postfix which was i think easier to use, here’s a [link](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/linux/ubuntu-postfix-gmail-smtp/) that i followed and used but it’s been a while.  
Tell me if succeeded otherwise we could try to plunge on the sendmail configuration and see if there is a way to use it.