# Email Notification Webhook or alternative to SMTP
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-webhook-or-alternative-to-smtp/266787
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [May 31, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-webhook-or-alternative-to-smtp/266787 "2023-05-31T16:10:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@NotAnonymous](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NotAnonymous)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-webhook-or-alternative-to-smtp/266787/1 "2023-05-31T16:10:47Z")
I’m wanting to change our Discourse email notifications to be sent via a service that only supports sending via an API rather than a standard SMTP relay. I’m not finding any current settings or plugins or obvious way of doing this. The closest I’ve seen is maybe using a webhook to send info to the api or an interstitial api. Questions:
- Is there already a way to send email via api instead of smtp that I’m just not finding?
- If not, is there a way to get any notifications that would normally trigger an email via web hook?
- If not, is there a way via a plugin to override normal email sends and do a custom thing instead?
Any answers/pointers on the above would be much appreciated!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-webhook-or-alternative-to-smtp/266787/2 "2023-05-31T20:37:29Z")
> [@NotAnonymous](#):
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> Is there already a way to send email via api instead of smtp that I’m just not finding?
No.
> [@NotAnonymous](#):
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> If not, is there a way to get any notifications that would normally trigger an email via web hook?
I don’t think so.
> [@NotAnonymous](#):
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> If not, is there a way via a plugin to override normal email sends and do a custom thing instead?
Sure, anything is possible. I think it’ll take a bunch of time and be prone be being broken, I think.