# Configure email alert action via docker environment variables

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-email-alert-action-via-docker-environment-variables/166464>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-email-alert-action-via-docker-environment-variables/166464 "2019-01-31T04:00:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sebastian\_Treu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sebastian_treu/32/27013_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Treu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sebastian_Treu)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-email-alert-action-via-docker-environment-variables/166464/1 "2019-01-31T04:00:18Z")

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Hi,

Is it possible to configure [email settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/actions-email.html#gmail) via environment variables?

Docs says:

> You configure the accounts Watcher can use to send email in the \>`xpack.notification.email` namespace in `elasticsearch.yml` .

I know we could set `elasticsearch.yml` options via docker environment variables but so far this is not working as expected:

```auto
      - "xpack.notification.email.account.gmail_account.profile=gmail"
      - "xpack.notification.email.account.gmail_account.smtp.auth=true"
      - "xpack.notification.email.account.gmail_account.smtp.starttls.enable=true"
      - "xpack.notification.email.account.gmail_account.smtp.host=smtp.gmail.com"
      - "xpack.notification.email.account.gmail_account.smtp.port=587"
      - "xpack.notification.email.account.gmail_account.smtp.user=info@mail.info"
      - "xpack.notification.email.account.gmail_account.smtp.password=foo"

```

Is this possible? I want to avoid as much as possible bind mount the config file.

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**Author:** ![Sebastian\_Treu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sebastian_treu/32/27013_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Treu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sebastian_Treu)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-email-alert-action-via-docker-environment-variables/166464/2 "2019-02-05T15:36:36Z")

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Anyone on this topic? It seems not possible to configure that way.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-email-alert-action-via-docker-environment-variables/166464/3 "2019-03-05T15:45:26Z")

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