# Cant able to send mail from watcher **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 21, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-able-to-send-mail-from-watcher/229131 "2020-04-21T20:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rakeshraagu2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rakeshraagu2/32/66283_2.png) [@rakeshraagu2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rakeshraagu2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-able-to-send-mail-from-watcher/229131/1 "2020-04-21T20:56:41Z")
Hi All, Iam trying to send alert mail from watcher but failed to send mail. Iam using a gmail account. This is the error message i gets from cluster log [2020-04-22T02:20:37,420][ERROR][o.e.x.w.a.e.ExecutableEmailAction] [elk-master] failed to execute action [_inlined_/email\_1] javax.mail.MessagingException: failed to send email with subject [Watch [test] has exceeded the threshold] via account [gmail\_account] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.EmailService.send(EmailService.java:171) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.EmailService.send(EmailService.java:163) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.actions.email.ExecutableEmailAction.execute(ExecutableEmailAction.java:76) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.watcher.actions.ActionWrapper.execute(ActionWrapper.java:164) [x-pack-core-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.execution.ExecutionService.executeInner(ExecutionService.java:534) [x-pack-watcher-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.execution.ExecutionService.execute(ExecutionService.java:320) [x-pack-watcher-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.transport.actions.execute.TransportExecuteWatchAction$1.doRun(TransportExecuteWatchAction.java:159) [x-pack-watcher-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [elasticsearch-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.execution.ExecutionService$WatchExecutionTask.run(ExecutionService.java:627) [x-pack-watcher-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:633) [elasticsearch-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) [?:?] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) [?:?] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:830) [?:?] Caused by: com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: [smtp.gmail.com](http://smtp.gmail.com), 587; timeout 120000 at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:2209) ~[?:?] at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:722) ~[?:?] at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:342) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.Account.lambda$executeConnect$2(Account.java:161) ~[?:?] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:554) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.Account.executeConnect(Account.java:160) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.Account.send(Account.java:119) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.EmailService.send(EmailService.java:169) ~[?:?] ... 12 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at sun.nio.ch.Net.pollConnect(Native Method) ~[?:?] at sun.nio.ch.Net.pollConnectNow(Net.java:579) ~[?:?] at sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.timedFinishConnect(NioSocketImpl.java:549) ~[?:?] at sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.connect(NioSocketImpl.java:597) ~[?:?] at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:339) ~[?:?] at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:603) ~[?:?] at com.sun.mail.util.WriteTimeoutSocket.connect(WriteTimeoutSocket.java:91) ~[?:?] at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:333) ~[?:?] at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:214) ~[?:?] at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:2160) ~[?:?] at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:722) ~[?:?] at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:342) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.Account.lambda$executeConnect$2(Account.java:161) ~[?:?] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:554) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.Account.executeConnect(Account.java:160) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.Account.send(Account.java:119) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.notification.email.EmailService.send(EmailService.java:169) ~[?:?] ... 12 more configuration file for elasticsearch xpack.notification.email.account: gmail\_account: profile: gmail email\_defaults: from: [raagurakesh765@gmail.com](mailto:raagurakesh765@gmail.com) smtp: auth: true starttls.enable: true host: [smtp.gmail.com](http://smtp.gmail.com) port: 587 user: gmail-id password key stored using, sudo ./elasticsearch-keystore add xpack.notification.email.account.my-gmail-id.smtp.secure\_password pls help. Is there anything missing from the configuration?.... Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-able-to-send-mail-from-watcher/229131/2 "2020-05-19T20:56:50Z")
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