# Email sending failed on my watcher alert

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/email-sending-failed-on-my-watcher-alert/221501>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 29, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/email-sending-failed-on-my-watcher-alert/221501 "2020-02-29T02:15:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/email-sending-failed-on-my-watcher-alert/221501/2 "2020-03-01T02:08:36Z")

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@mark.quilates - This issue could be related to this [Discuss topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-email-from-x-pack-to-gmail/108257/2). In a nutshell, you would need to set the `from` parameter in the [email action](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/actions-email.html#email-action-attributes) in your watch implementation. You could also use the `email_defaults` parameter in the [email account configuration](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/actions-email.html#configuring-email) in the `elasticsearch.yml` file.

I hope that helps.

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