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Duplicati can send email notifications after each operation. These can be either entered under the settings to apply to all Duplicati profiles, or under an individual profile under Option 5 | Advanced Options section.

Testing

Use the send-mail command to test this:

%MONO%"%APP_PATH%" send-mail --send-mail-to=<email-address>

Commandline options

--send-mail-to=<email-address>

Send an email to after a backup. Valid formats are "Name test@example.com, Other test2@example.com, test3@example.com". Multiple addresses must be separated with a comma.

--send-mail-from=<email-address>

This is the sender address of the email that is sent.

--send-mail-subject=<subject>

This is the subject line of the email that is sent. E.g. this can be "Duplicati %OPERATIONNAME% Report"

--send-mail-body=<body>

The content of the email message. This should contain "%RESULT%".

--send-mail-url=<smtp-url>

A URL to connect to an SMTP server to send out an email. Example: "tls://smtp.example.com:587", "smtps://smtp.example.com:465" or "smtp://smtp.example.com:25"

--send-mail-username=<username>

Required username to authenticate with SMTP server.

--send-mail-password=<password>

Required password to authenticate with SMTP server.

--send-mail-level=<level>

When email messages are sent: "Success", "Warning", "Error", "Fatal", "All" are possible.

--send-mail-any-operation=true

Also send emails after other operations like restore etc.

Allowed placeholders (variables) are:

%PARSEDRESULT%

The parsed result op the operation: Success, Warning, Error

%RESULT%

When used in the body, this is the result/log of the backup, When used in the subject line, this is the same as %PARSEDRESULT%

%OPERATIONNAME%

The name of the operation, usually "backup", but could also be "restore" etc.

%REMOTEURL%

The backend url

%LOCALPATH%

The path to the local folders involved (i.e. the folders being backed up)

%backup-name%

Backup Name of the profile

Extracted from: 5f6a4b7246/Duplicati/CommandLine/help.txt

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