diff --git a/update-gitea.pl b/update-gitea.pl
index a2be88e..9d82f59 100755
--- a/update-gitea.pl
+++ b/update-gitea.pl
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ use Sort::Versions;
 use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions);
 use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
 use feature qw(say);
+use MIME::Lite;
+use utf8;
+use open ':std', ':encoding(UTF-8)';
+use Encode qw(encode encode_utf8 );
 
 my ( $verbose, $info );
 
@@ -34,9 +38,9 @@ GetOptions(
 
 ##########################################
 ### The user must set these variables ###
-# SET email address
-my $email    = 'tclark77@tlcnet.info';
+my $email    = 'gitea-update@tlcnet.info';
 my $filetype = '-linux-amd64';
+##########################################
 
 # https://api.github.com/repos/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest
 # This URL will only have one version listed
@@ -47,8 +51,9 @@ my $alphanum_ver                 = 0;
 
 chomp $gitea_current_version_string;
 unless ( defined $gitea_current_version_string ) {
-    die
-      "[DIE]: Unable to get the version of the gitea binary on the system: $!";
+   my $status = "❌ [DIE]: Unable to get the version of the gitea binary on the system: $!";
+   notification('failed ❌', $status);
+    die RED "$status", RESET;
 }
 
 my %binary_file           = get_current_version($gitea_current_version_string);
@@ -69,7 +74,7 @@ my $latest_release_hash = decode_json( $resp->content )
 my $orig_tag = $latest_release_hash->{tag_name};
 my $tag      = $orig_tag;
 substr( $tag, 0, 1, '' );
-print("Latest upstream version is $tag\n");
+print("Latest upstream version: $tag\n");
 my $release_id = $latest_release_hash->{id};    # Works
 my $unz_filename = 'gitea-' . $tag . $filetype;
 #ex: gitea-1.7.6-linux-amd64
@@ -81,13 +86,9 @@ if ( defined $verbose ) {
           "[INFO]\nRelease id: $release_id\nUncompressed filename: $unz_filename\nDownload file target: $download_filename\n"
     );
 }
-
-
-#ex: gitea-1.7.6-linux-amd64.xz
-
 if ( versioncmp( $gitea_current_version, $tag ) == -1 ) {
     printf(
-"Version tag is greater than the system version, proceeding with update\n"
+    "[INFO] Version tag is greater than the system version, proceeding with update\n"
     );
     backup_bin( \%binary_file );
 
@@ -100,17 +101,23 @@ if ( versioncmp( $gitea_current_version, $tag ) == -1 ) {
     if ( defined $info ) {
         print YELLOW "[INFO] xz file is $xz_file\n", RESET;
     }
-
     install_bin($download_filename);
-
+}
+else {
+   my $status = '✅ Version tag upstream matches the system version, no update needed';
+   print( YELLOW "[INFO] $status\n", RESET );
+   notification('not needed ✅', $status);
+   exit 1;
 }
 
-my $status = check_gitea_status();
-if ( $status =~ /active/ ) {
+my $gitea_status = check_gitea_status();
+if ( $gitea_status =~ /active/ ) {
     print( GREEN "[INFO] Gitea service is active\n", RESET );
 }
-unless ( $status =~ /active/ ) {
-    die RED "[DIE] Status of gitea service is no good! OMGURD\n", RESET;
+unless ( $gitea_status =~ /active/ ) {
+   my $status = RED "❌ [DIE] Status of gitea service is no good!\n", RESET;
+    notification('failed ❌', $status);
+    die $status;
 }
 $gitea_current_version_string = `$gitea_bin --version`;
 chomp $gitea_current_version_string;
@@ -118,22 +125,19 @@ chomp $gitea_current_version_string;
 $gitea_current_version = $binary_file{'version'};
 
 if ( versioncmp( $gitea_current_version, $tag ) == -1 ) {
-    printf(
-"Upstream version tag is STILL greater than the current system version, something went wrong\n"
-    );
+    my $status = RED "Upstream version tag is STILL greater than the current  system version, something went wrong\n", RESET;
+    notification('failed ❌', $status);
+    printf( $status );
 }
 else {
-    say "Cleanup and remove the old xz file and uncompressed file";
-    say "Unzipped filename in cleanup is " . $download_dir . $unz_filename;
+    my $status = GREEN "✅ [INFO] Gitea version is current and service is running\n", RESET;
+    say "Removing the downloaded xz file and uncompressed file";
     system("rm -vf " . $download_dir . $unz_filename);
     system("rm -vf " . $download_dir . $download_filename);
+    notification('succeeded ✅', $status);
     # Intentionally *not* removing the 'gitea' binary in case something goes wrong running the current binary.
 }
 
-#TODO Add check if running binary is the same version as what we downloaded
-
-# #notification( $email );
-
 # ##### Subroutines #####
 
 # sub check_deps {
@@ -273,9 +277,6 @@ sub build_download_url {
 
 sub install_bin {
     my $filename = shift;
-
-    #my $unz_binary =
-
     print("Unpacking the downloaded file, setting owner and permissions\n");
 
     # Copy the downloaded binary to gitea and chmod it 750
@@ -288,9 +289,8 @@ sub install_bin {
     system("chmod 750 $gitea_bin");
 
     # Restart service
-    print("Restarting the gitea service\n");
-    system("systemctl restart gitea");
-    return;
+    print("[INFO] Restarting the gitea service\n");
+    return system("systemctl restart gitea");
 }
 
 sub check_gitea_status {
@@ -298,14 +298,24 @@ sub check_gitea_status {
     return $gitea_status;
 }
 
-sub cleanup {
-
-# remove downloaded binary and old backup set install_status=success ELSE remove "gitea" and restore from backup and set install_status=fail
-    return;
-}
-
 sub notification {
-    my $to = shift;
+    my ($result, $body) = @_;
+    my $subject = "Gitea update check: update " . $result;
+    my $from = 'system@host.tlcnet.info';
 
-    return;
+    my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
+    Subject => encode( 'MIME-Header', $subject ),
+    From    => $from,
+    To      => $email,
+    Type    => 'text/html',
+    Data    => encode_utf8( '<body>
+      <H1>Gitea update result</H1>
+      <p>' . $body . '</p><br>
+      <p>&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;&#9135;</p>
+      </body>' )
+    );
+
+    $msg->send();
+
+    return 1;
 }