Emails can give you play-by-play information from a program, or just act as a notifier that it is done running. Mailgun is a great web platform that can send emails via a web API. This is a LabVIEW VI that integrates with Mailgun, all you will need is a [free] account and to enter in your API information. I will not be keeping the source on Github, so here it is.

Use like this:

This is the back panel: