Cant send mail alert through watcher

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi,

When I testing my mail alert using watcher it is showing an error that mail send failed.

In my cluster log file I saw below given line. Can anyoone help.

][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 [filebeat] has exceeded the threshold] via account [gmail_account]

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Full error message

[2020-04-21T15:43:55,727][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 [filebeat] 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: javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException: failed to connect, no password specified?
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:376) ~[?:?]
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

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elasticseacrh.yml entry

xpack.notification.email.account:
gmail_account:
profile: gmail
smtp:
auth: true
starttls.enable: true
host: smtp.gmail.com
port: 587
user:

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Ketstore value addes using this command,

sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-keystore add xpack.notification.email.account.my-gmail-user-id.smtp.secure_password

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Isnt anyone here who can help?...

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That would appear to be why, you may want to check your config.

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Same issue here....Warklom, doesn't running the keystore command specify the password?

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