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I am looking for a step-by-step guide for a novice in setting up Email Notification Upon Download Completion while using a VPN such as Express VPN. I am attempting to use my email address for this option. But I am having issues in determining where to indicate the appropriate port number associated with my email providers Smpt. In 'Options' then 'Downloads' I have filled out the applicable information but there isn't a spot in the 'Downloads' setting that asks for the port number. So where would I indicate the port number? Because when I fill out just the information that is being asked under the 'Downloads' section, without the port number, the Email notification Upon Download Completion does not work.

Secondly, under the 'Downloads' section, there is also a section that says 'Run external program on torrent completion', could someone please provide a step-by-step guide for this as well, if I want to set this up too?

Thanks in advance!

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So where would I indicate the port number? Because when I fill out just the information that is being asked under the 'Downloads' section, without the port number, the Email notification Upon Download Completion does not work.

Secondly, under the 'Downloads' section, there is also a section that says 'Run external program on torrent completion', could someone please provide a step-by-step guide for this as well, if I want to set this up too?

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For port number try appending the port number to the URL.
eg if the SMTP server is smtp.private-emails.com and it runs on port 6969
Set the SMTP server to smtp.private-emails.com:6969

I dont use this feature personally but i'd imagine thats how it would work unless qbt forcibly uses defaults and the defaults are incorrect..

^^This ofcourse assumes the VPN allows you to send traffic on that port.

As for run external program on torrent completion this is best explained with an example..
Im going to assume you're on windows, apologies if not; the process is the same but the example provided wont work for you.

In the location provided you point to a file or script you would like qbittorrent to execute every single time a torrent completes
For example i have a file at C:\My Folder called OpenFolder.bat

I would enter "C:\My Folder\OpenFolder.bat" including the quotations into that field.
This will cause qbittorrent to run that file.

But what if my file needs to know where the torrent is located so it can open the file!?

Well qbittorrent provides some variables we can include to pass information from the program to our program, they are listed below the input field under the "supported parameters" heading
So if i need to pass the Content Path (location where i saved the torrent) to my script so it can open the folder i would use the %F parameter

This changes my commandline from "C:\My Folder\OpenFolder.bat" to "C:\My Folder\OpenFolder.bat" "%F"

Here is a quick batch script that works with this example i quickly wrote up! ^If you save that as OpenFolder.bat into your C:\ Drive and use the commandline "C:\OpenFolder.bat" "%F" it will work.
This is just a quick example/demonstration of what it does/what you can do, you can perform far more complex operations with this functionality.