diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c0fde79..bfb6d59 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
+*.yml
+*.yaml
+*.log
 snapraid-runner.conf
diff --git a/apprise.yml.example b/apprise.yml.example
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..57649e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apprise.yml.example
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+urls:
+  - pbul://MY-KEY
+
diff --git a/snapraid-runner.conf.example b/snapraid-runner.conf.example
index ed64810..9f62fd4 100644
--- a/snapraid-runner.conf.example
+++ b/snapraid-runner.conf.example
@@ -14,27 +14,22 @@ file = snapraid.log
 ; maximum logfile size in KiB, leave empty for infinite
 maxsize = 5000
 
-[email]
-; when to send an email, comma-separated list of [success, error]
+[notification]
+enabled = true
+
+; when to send a notificariton on, comma-separated list of [success, error]
 sendon = success,error
-; set to false to get full programm output via email
+
+; set to false to get full programm output
 short = true
-subject = [SnapRAID] Status Report:
-from =
-to =
+
+; Python Apprise config.
+; https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/config_yaml
+config = apprise.yml
+
 ; maximum email size in KiB
 maxsize = 500
 
-[smtp]
-host =
-; leave empty for default port
-port =
-; set to "true" to activate
-ssl = false
-tls = false
-user =
-password =
-
 [scrub]
 ; set to true to run scrub after sync
 enabled = false
diff --git a/snapraid-runner.py b/snapraid-runner.py
index e8aadce..c02df3d 100644
--- a/snapraid-runner.py
+++ b/snapraid-runner.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 # Global variables
 config = None
-email_log = None
+notification_log = None
 
 
 def tee_log(infile, out_lines, log_level):
@@ -71,64 +71,42 @@ def snapraid_command(command, args={}, *, allow_statuscodes=[]):
     else:
         raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(ret, "snapraid " + command)
 
+def send_notification(success):
+    import apprise
+    logging.info("sending msg")
+    # Create an Apprise instance
+    apobj = apprise.Apprise()
 
-def send_email(success):
-    import smtplib
-    from email.mime.text import MIMEText
-    from email import charset
+    # Create an Config instance
+    apprise_config = apprise.AppriseConfig()
 
-    if len(config["smtp"]["host"]) == 0:
-        logging.error("Failed to send email because smtp host is not set")
-        return
+    apprise_config_file = config["notification"]["config"]
+    # Add a configuration source:
+    apprise_config.add(apprise_config_file)
+    # Make sure to add our config into our apprise object
+    apobj.add(apprise_config)
 
-    # use quoted-printable instead of the default base64
-    charset.add_charset("utf-8", charset.SHORTEST, charset.QP)
     if success:
-        body = "SnapRAID job completed successfully:\n\n\n"
+        message_title = "SnapRAID job completed successfully:\n\n\n"
     else:
-        body = "Error during SnapRAID job:\n\n\n"
-
-    log = email_log.getvalue()
-    maxsize = config['email'].get('maxsize', 500) * 1024
-    if maxsize and len(log) > maxsize:
-        cut_lines = log.count("\n", maxsize // 2, -maxsize // 2)
-        log = (
-            "NOTE: Log was too big for email and was shortened\n\n" +
-            log[:maxsize // 2] +
-            "[...]\n\n\n --- LOG WAS TOO BIG - {} LINES REMOVED --\n\n\n[...]".format(
-                cut_lines) +
-            log[-maxsize // 2:])
-    body += log
-
-    msg = MIMEText(body, "plain", "utf-8")
-    msg["Subject"] = config["email"]["subject"] + \
-        (" SUCCESS" if success else " ERROR")
-    msg["From"] = config["email"]["from"]
-    msg["To"] = config["email"]["to"]
-    smtp = {"host": config["smtp"]["host"]}
-    if config["smtp"]["port"]:
-        smtp["port"] = config["smtp"]["port"]
-    if config["smtp"]["ssl"]:
-        server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(**smtp)
-    else:
-        server = smtplib.SMTP(**smtp)
-        if config["smtp"]["tls"]:
-            server.starttls()
-    if config["smtp"]["user"]:
-        server.login(config["smtp"]["user"], config["smtp"]["password"])
-    server.sendmail(
-        config["email"]["from"],
-        [config["email"]["to"]],
-        msg.as_string())
-    server.quit()
-
+        message_title = "Error during SnapRAID job:\n\n\n"
+  
+    message_body = notification_log.getvalue()
+
+    # Then notify these services any time you desire. The below would
+    # notify all of the services that have not been bound to any specific
+    # tag.
+    apobj.notify(
+        body=message_body,
+        title=message_title,
+    )   
 
 def finish(is_success):
-    if ("error", "success")[is_success] in config["email"]["sendon"]:
+    if ("error", "success")[is_success] in config["notification"]["sendon"]:
         try:
-            send_email(is_success)
+            send_notification(is_success)
         except Exception:
-            logging.exception("Failed to send email")
+            logging.exception("Failed to send notification")
     if is_success:
         logging.info("Run finished successfully")
     else:
@@ -140,7 +118,7 @@ def load_config(args):
     global config
     parser = configparser.RawConfigParser()
     parser.read(args.conf)
-    sections = ["snapraid", "logging", "email", "smtp", "scrub"]
+    sections = ["snapraid", "logging", "scrub", "notification"]
     config = dict((x, defaultdict(lambda: "")) for x in sections)
     for section in parser.sections():
         for (k, v) in parser.items(section):
@@ -148,7 +126,7 @@ def load_config(args):
 
     int_options = [
         ("snapraid", "deletethreshold"), ("logging", "maxsize"),
-        ("scrub", "percentage"), ("scrub", "older-than"), ("email", "maxsize"),
+        ("scrub", "percentage"), ("scrub", "older-than"),
     ]
     for section, option in int_options:
         try:
@@ -156,11 +134,9 @@ def load_config(args):
         except ValueError:
             config[section][option] = 0
 
-    config["smtp"]["ssl"] = (config["smtp"]["ssl"].lower() == "true")
-    config["smtp"]["tls"] = (config["smtp"]["tls"].lower() == "true")
     config["scrub"]["enabled"] = (config["scrub"]["enabled"].lower() == "true")
-    config["email"]["short"] = (config["email"]["short"].lower() == "true")
-    config["snapraid"]["touch"] = (config["snapraid"]["touch"].lower() == "true")
+    config["snapraid"]["touch"] = (
+        config["snapraid"]["touch"].lower() == "true")
 
     if args.scrub is not None:
         config["scrub"]["enabled"] = args.scrub
@@ -188,15 +164,15 @@ def setup_logger():
         file_logger.setFormatter(log_format)
         root_logger.addHandler(file_logger)
 
-    if config["email"]["sendon"]:
-        global email_log
-        email_log = StringIO()
-        email_logger = logging.StreamHandler(email_log)
-        email_logger.setFormatter(log_format)
-        if config["email"]["short"]:
+    if config["notification"]["sendon"]:
+        global notification_log
+        notification_log = StringIO()
+        notification_logger = logging.StreamHandler(notification_log)
+        notification_logger.setFormatter(log_format)
+        if config["notification"]["short"]:
             # Don't send programm stdout in email
-            email_logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
-        root_logger.addHandler(email_logger)
+            notification_logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+        root_logger.addHandler(notification_logger)
 
 
 def main():
@@ -302,3 +278,4 @@ def run():
 
 
 main()
+