[SOLVED] Setting up email notifications for updates

[Dutchbear]

I am running a Proxmox Virtual Environment server and I wanna setup email notifications when there are updates available. How do I set this up? I do receive emails already when a backup is succeeded or failed, but I am not receiving update notifications yet.

 

[Markku]

Short version:

You need to run this command on any of the nodes in the PVE cluster to enable the package update notifications:

pvesh set /cluster/options --notify package-updates=always

root@pve1:~# pvesh get /cluster/options --noborder | grep notify
notify {"package-updates":"always"}
root@pve1:~#

Long version: https://majornetwork.net/2026/04/proxmox-ve-update-notifications-in-the-lab/

 

[Dutchbear]

Ah okay I just did the command. Do I need to change anything about the default notification matcher?

 

[Markku]

The default matcher doesn't have much configuration IIRC, so if it matches the backup info, it should match the updates info as well.

 

[Dutchbear]

Very well thank you for the help!