Setting up email notifications for your Zabbix 6.4 server

This post will explain how to set up email notifications for a single user in Zabbix 6.4. It isn't exactly a step - by - step tutorial so I won't be showing you want data to enter. The reason for not doing this is that there are so many different email providers around.

You can usually find the email settings you need from your email provider's control panel or an email that you received when you first signed up with them.

Setting up an email service with Zabbix 6.4

When you are logged in to your Zabbix installation click on the Alerts menu and then on Media types. Now choose Email (HTML).

You will be presented with a long list of fields that can be edited. You need to fill some of these with the settings that your email provider gives you.

Once finished click on Update until you return to the main screen.

Setting up your user to receive email alerts

The process of receiving email alerts from Zabbix 6.4 is a two - part process. Once you have told Zabbix what settings to use to send email you need to configure the user that you want to send email to so that they receive the messages.

To do this click on the Users menu on the left then click on the Users submenu. Now click on the user that you wish to send notifications to. This will probably be a super user.

Finally, click on Media at the top of the screen then click on Add. Make sure Type is set to Email (HTML) and enter your email address in the Send to field.

Click on Update until you arrive back at the main screen.

Conclusion

You should now be able to receive emails whenever Zabbix generates a message.