# awx mail notifications

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-mail-notifications/35213>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [May 23, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-mail-notifications/35213 "2021-05-23T23:37:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jose\_Bisconti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jose\_Bisconti](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jose_Bisconti)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-mail-notifications/35213/1 "2021-05-23T23:37:17Z")

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Hi everyone, I am starting with awx and I am stuck on a topic. I comment on the scenario. For my new job I urgently need to configure the custom messages via mail to notify about the creation of vms.

The documentation is not helping me to make the described configurations. I really need to show a client that I can do this.

I am running awx 17.1.0 on CentOS 8.0. I do not understand how or where to modify the configuration files so that the awx gui takes me the variables that I want to modify

Could you help me?. greetings and thanks

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**Author:** ![klaasdemter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@klaasdemter](https://forum.ansible.com/u/klaasdemter)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-mail-notifications/35213/2 "2021-05-24T11:19:22Z")

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Hi,

I use mails directly in ansible:

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/mail\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/mail_module.html)

but there is also a awx specific solution (that I have never tried though):

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/notifications.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/notifications.html)

Greetings

Klaas

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**Author:** ![Jose\_Bisconti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jose\_Bisconti](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jose_Bisconti)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-mail-notifications/35213/3 "2021-05-24T14:54:22Z")

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Thank you so much for your answer. I’m going to read the links that you passed to me. I fundamentally have a question that I cannot answer myself, which is if it is in the awx\_task docker where the variables are modified.

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**Author:** ![howardjones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/howardjones/32/4169_2.png) [@howardjones](https://forum.ansible.com/u/howardjones)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-mail-notifications/35213/4 "2021-05-24T21:07:44Z")

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You configure notifications in the web UI. Most (all?) awx config is done either there or the REST API though, rather than config files.