8/3/2023 0 Comments Duplicacy backup![]() ![]() Use the same 'From' and Username` field as your SMTP credentials. Trying a different port actually hung the Duplicacy Web UI bugreport the email sending blocked forever while holding a mutex. ![]() There were a few ports you can use, but only Server: :587 worked for me. Now go back to Duplicacy, and click "Send email after completion" and set it up like this, pasting in the password: The password isn't shown on screen, instead you copy it to clipboard: Click "Manage SMTP credentials", and "Add new SMTP user". You could just use the default sender credentials, but just in case I use this Mailgun account for more than one thing, I don't want Duplicacy to use the default (postmaster?) credentials. Then click 'SMTP', as Duplicacy only does SMTP sending, not HTTP-with-API-key sending: You get 5 free recipients I only need one. Sending > Overview > Authorized Recipientsįree trial accounts can only send to these verified recipients. I had trouble finding this, it's under "Sending > Overview > Authorized Recipients". Then you have to add yourself as an 'authorized recipient'. Sign up, verify your email, validate your phone number by SMS. Mailgun has a free indefinitely-long trial tier, which looks sufficient: 5k should be enough for me sending one email a day. They're right, it's annoying registering throwaway GMail accounts: you have to set up security questions and backup accounts and the account might get closed as spam. Especially when dedicated services for sending this type of transactional emails are readily available (E.g. This not only defeats any MFA you might have there but is also likely against googles TOS. ![]() Usually I'd register a throwaway GMail account for sending email from automated bots, but on the Duplicacy forums suggested: It’s best not to use Gmail for sending automated email especially if it involves exporting credentials that provide full access to your google account and storing them pretty much plaintext within the service that has no business accessing your gmail account in the first place. Here's how I set it up Mailgun to send the notifications of backup success and failure.ĭuplicacy lets you send SMTP notifications after scheduled backups, by ticking the 'Send email after completion' checkbox. Backups are no good if they fail without telling you! I'm setting up Duplicacy Backup after a drive failed during a lightning storm, and after evaluating backup software options. ![]()
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