diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6c4fb35..0c3d87c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+mailvars
 process.log
 uploadpage/streams/*
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 75f5edf..25f95c5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,19 +3,24 @@
 
 ## Install
 * Prepare a server, set its timezone to the users' timezone
-  (on deb-based systems: `dpkg-reconfigure tzdata`)
-* On the server, `cd` to the place where you want the files
-* Clone repo: `git clone https://gitlab.com/pepa65/streamupload`
-* `cd streamupload`
-* Change the value of the `repopath` variable in `stream` and `encode`
-  to the output of `echo $PWD`
-* Run a php/webserver on $PWD/uploadpage
-  - Get it to restart on reboot
+  (on deb-based systems: `dpkg-reconfigure tzdata`).
+* On the server, `cd` to the place where you want the files.
+* Clone repo: `git clone https://gitlab.com/pepa65/streamupload`.
+* `cd streamupload`.
+* Run a php/webserver on $PWD/uploadpage:
+  - Get it to restart on reboot.
   - Setting up basicauth on the page is a good idea if others can get access!
   - Change the relevant `php.ini` to allow large file uploads:
-    * `post_max_size` - Upper limit of uploaded video sizes, say `10G`
-    * `upload_max_filesize` - same value as `post_max_size`
-* Make a crontab-entry: "* * * * *  $PWD/encode" (replace $PWD with its value!)
+    * `post_max_size` - Upper limit of uploaded video sizes, say `10G`.
+    * `upload_max_filesize` - same value as `post_max_size`.
+* Make a crontab-entry: "* * * * *  $PWD/encode" (replace $PWD with its value!).
+* Install the `mailer` binary by downloading it from the repo at
+  https://https://github.com/pepa65/mailer/releases/latest and moving it to
+  `/usr/local/bin` and make it executable: `chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mailer`.
+  If it's not installed, everything except the email will still work.
+* Copy `_mailvars` to `mailvars` and set the variables
+  `to`, `user`, `password`, `smtp` and `port` in it in order to
+  receive mail notifications when the encodes are finished.
 
 ## Usage
 * Get a streamkey for the target by scheduling a stream
diff --git a/_mailvars b/_mailvars
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5377853
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_mailvars
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Variables for mailer
+to=''
+user=''
+password=''
+smtp=''
+port=''
diff --git a/encode b/encode
index e124e3a..10baba8 100755
--- a/encode
+++ b/encode
@@ -4,23 +4,32 @@
 # Usage:  encode
 #   Called by cron every minute; process oldest .upload file in uploadpage/streams)
 
-repopath=/var/www
-log=$repopath/process.log
-dir=$repopath/uploadpage/streams
-
 # Check for oldest uploaded file
+_=$(realpath -- "${BASH_SOURCE:-$0}") repopath=${_%/*}
+log=$repopath/process.log dir=$repopath/uploadpage/streams
 upload=$(/usr/bin/ls -1tr "$dir"/*.upload 2>/dev/null |head -1)
 
 # Finished if no uploadpage/streams/*.upload files found
 [[ $upload ]] || exit 0
 
-Log(){ # 1:message 2:returncode
+Log(){ # 1:message 2:returncode(empty: no exit) I:file
 	echo "$1">>"$log"
-	# Remove source (if returncode not zero)
-	/usr/bin/sync
-	/usr/bin/sleep 1
-	#(($2)) && /usr/bin/rm "$file"
-	exit $2
+	[[ $2 ]] && exit $2
+}
+
+Mail(){ # 1:kind(0:done, 1:wrong type, 2:encoding error) 2:logline I:to,user,password,smtp,port,name,type,start,finish
+	local sbj msg from="Stream Upload server"
+	source "$repopath/mailvars"
+	sbj[0]="Stream upload done for ${name##*@}"
+	sbj[1]="Stream upload wrong type: $type"
+	sbj[2]="Stream upload error encoding"
+	msg[0]="Heya,\n\nThe video $name started encoding on $start and finished on $finish.\n\nStream Upload server"
+	msg[1]="Heya,\n\nThe file $name from $start is of type $type and could not be used.\n\nStream Upload server\n"
+	msg[2]="Heya,\n\nThe file $name started encoding on $start but ran into an error on $finish.\n\nStream Upload server\n"
+	[[ $to && $user && $password && $smtp && $port ]] &&
+		mailer -m "$(echo -e "${msg[$1]}")" -t "$to" -s "${sbj[$1]}" -u "$user" -p "$password" -S "$smtp" -P "$port" -f "$from" ||
+		Log "Mail with subject '${sbj[$1]}' could not be sent"
+	Log "$2" $1
 }
 
 # Rename upload and check type
@@ -28,15 +37,19 @@ file=${upload%.upload} name=${file##*/} key=${name%%.*} date=${name##*.} video=$
 /usr/bin/mv "$upload" "$file"
 
 type=$(file -bL --mime-type "$file")
-[[ ! ${type:0:5} = video ]] && Log "File $name is of type $type" 1
+[[ ! ${type:0:5} = video ]] && Mail 1 "File $name is of type $type"
 
 # Encode video
+start=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M') error=0
 ## Single pass
 #/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i "$file" -c:v libx264 -x264opts no-scenecut -b:v 6M -force_key_frames 'expr:gte(t,n_forced*2)' -c:a copy -tune zerolatency -f mp4 "$video" ||
 # Double pass
 /usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i "$file" -c:v libx264 -x264opts no-scenecut -b:v 6M -maxrate 6M -bufsize 1M -force_key_frames 'expr:gte(t,n_forced*2)' -movflags faststart -c:a copy -tune zerolatency -pass 1 -f mp4 "$video" &&
 	/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i "$file" -c:v libx264 -x264opts no-scenecut -b:v 6M -maxrate 6M -bufsize 1M -force_key_frames 'expr:gte(t,n_forced*2)' -movflags faststart -c:a copy -tune zerolatency -pass 2 -f mp4 "$video" ||
-	Log "Error encoding $name" 2
+	error=1
+
+finish=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M')
+((error)) && Mail 2 "Error encoding $name"
 
 # Schedule cron job
 m=${date:13:2} m=${m#0} h=${date:11:2} h=${h#0}
@@ -46,4 +59,4 @@ D=${date:8:2} D=${D#0} M=${date:5:2} M=${M#0}
 line="$m $h $D $M "'*'"  $repopath/stream '$name'"
 echo -e "$(/usr/bin/crontab -l)\n$line" |/usr/bin/crontab -
 
-Log "crontab:  '$line'" 0
+Mail 0 "crontab:  '$line'"
diff --git a/stream b/stream
index 921d301..a437a1b 100755
--- a/stream
+++ b/stream
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #   information, has the "streamkey" at the start before the dot (it has to have
 #   a dot!) and the "target" at the very end, after the '@'.
 
-repopath=/var/www
+_=$(realpath -- "${BASH_SOURCE:-$0}") repopath=${_%/*}
 log=$repopath/process.log
 in=$repopath/uploadpage/streams/$1.mp4 key=${1%%.*} target=${1##*@}
 case $target in