# Sending Email to DL via Watcher

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-to-dl-via-watcher/380937>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [August 11, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-to-dl-via-watcher/380937 "2025-08-11T11:41:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-to-dl-via-watcher/380937/1 "2025-08-11T11:41:29Z")

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Hi Team,

It is observed that individual Id's are receiving the email via Watcher without any issues but when a DL is added in “to”, the message/email does not arrive. Watcher executes & ends with success but message not received.

Watcher template :

```auto
{
  "trigger": {
    "schedule": {
      "daily": {
        "at": [
          {
            "hour": [
              HH
            ],
            "minute": [
              MM
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "input": {
    "none": {}
  },
  "condition": {
    "always": {}
  },
  "actions": {
    "send_email": {
      "email": {
        "profile": "standard",
        "to": [
          "my-test-dl@elk.com"
        ],
        "subject": "Ignore : Test email to DL from ELK",
        "body": {
          "text": """Hi Team,

This is test email to DL.

Thanks,
ELK Team"""
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

Snippet of output from action block :

`"id": "send_email",`  
`"type": "email",`  
`"status": "success"`

Could you please confirm if for sending an email to DL via Watcher there are any configuration changes needed ?

Note : the individual id’s ([individual-id@elk.com](mailto:individual-id@elk.com)) belong to same domain as the DL ([my-test-dl@elk.com](mailto:my-test-dl@elk.com))

Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![Keith\_Massey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/keith_massey/32/83666_2.png) [@Keith\_Massey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Keith_Massey)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-to-dl-via-watcher/380937/2 "2025-08-11T15:28:49Z")

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Check your SMTP server logs. Watcher just hands it off to your mail server.