# Cant send mail alert through watcher **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 21, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011 "2020-04-21T10:19:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **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, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011/1 "2020-04-21T10:19:36Z")
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] ---
**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, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011/2 "2020-04-21T10:22:48Z")
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 ---
**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, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011/3 "2020-04-21T10:23:56Z")
elasticseacrh.yml entry xpack.notification.email.account: gmail\_account: profile: gmail smtp: auth: true starttls.enable: true host: [smtp.gmail.com](http://smtp.gmail.com) port: 587 user: ---
**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, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011/4 "2020-04-21T10:25:27Z")
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 ---
**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, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011/5 "2020-04-21T11:42:54Z")
Isnt anyone here who can help?... ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011/6 "2020-04-21T22:00:18Z")
> [@rakeshraagu2](#): > > Caused by: javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException: failed to connect, no password specified? That would appear to be why, you may want to check your config. ---
**Author:** ![ElasticLiver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticliver/32/64869_2.png) [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011/7 "2020-05-05T20:59:35Z")
Same issue here....Warklom, doesn't running the keystore command specify the password? > [@rakeshraagu2](#): > > 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 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-mail-alert-through-watcher/229011/8 "2020-06-02T20:59:59Z")
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