# Notification by mail

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/notification-by-mail/5724>\
**Category:** Icinga Web\
**Tags:** notifications, icingaweb2\
**Created:** [October 6, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/notification-by-mail/5724 "2020-10-06T11:24:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![stevie-sy](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@stevie-sy](https://community.icinga.com/u/stevie-sy)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 7:03am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/notification-by-mail/5724/4 "2020-10-07T07:03:59Z")

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Hi,

maybe it is this line at your notification definition for the service:

`assign where host.vars.notification.mail`

that mean you assign this to the host not to the notification var in your service.

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