# Watcher Email Configuration error **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 28, 2015, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-email-configuration-error/33127 "2015-10-28T07:26:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![krish0608](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/krish0608/32/6797_2.png) [@krish0608](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krish0608)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-email-configuration-error/33127/1 "2015-10-28T07:26:41Z")
Hi, I have configured watcher to Elasticsearch to get Alert & Notifications and I have setup Email configuration in yml file as shown below. watcher.actions.email.service.account: work: profile: gmail smtp: auth: true starttls.enable: true host: [krishna.kumar0608@gmail.com](mailto:krishna.kumar0608@gmail.com) port: 587 user: [krishna.kumar0608@gmail.com](mailto:krishna.kumar0608@gmail.com) password: password But I am getting error as, ./elasticsearch {1.7.1}: Setup Failed ... - SettingsException[Failed to load settings from [file:/home/krishna/Downloads/elasticsearch-1.7.1/config/elasticsearch.yml]] IOException[Tabs are illegal in YAML. Did you mean to use whitespace character instead?] org.elasticsearch.common.settings.SettingsException: Failed to load settings from [file:/home/krishna/Downloads/elasticsearch-1.7.1/config/elasticsearch.yml] at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings$Builder.loadFromStream(ImmutableSettings.java:985) at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings$Builder.loadFromUrl(ImmutableSettings.java:969) at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalSettingsPreparer.prepareSettings(InternalSettingsPreparer.java:110) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initialSettings(Bootstrap.java:144) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:215) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Tabs are illegal in YAML. Did you mean to use whitespace character instead? at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.loader.YamlSettingsLoader.load(YamlSettingsLoader.java:44) at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings$Builder.loadFromStream(ImmutableSettings.java:982) ... 5 more root@krishna-Vostro-1015:/home/krishna/Downloads/elasticsearch-1.7.1/bin# ./elasticsearch {1.7.1}: Setup Failed ... - SettingsException[Failed to load settings from [file:/home/krishna/Downloads/elasticsearch-1.7.1/config/elasticsearch.yml]] IOException[Tabs are illegal in YAML. Did you mean to use whitespace character instead?] org.elasticsearch.common.settings.SettingsException: Failed to load settings from [file:/home/krishna/Downloads/elasticsearch-1.7.1/config/elasticsearch.yml] at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings$Builder.loadFromStream(ImmutableSettings.java:985) at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings$Builder.loadFromUrl(ImmutableSettings.java:969) at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalSettingsPreparer.prepareSettings(InternalSettingsPreparer.java:110) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initialSettings(Bootstrap.java:144) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:215) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Tabs are illegal in YAML. Did you mean to use whitespace character instead? at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.loader.YamlSettingsLoader.load(YamlSettingsLoader.java:44) at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings$Builder.loadFromStream(ImmutableSettings.java:982) ... 5 more please help me out. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2015, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-email-configuration-error/33127/2 "2015-10-28T07:35:45Z")
> [@krish0608](#): > > Tabs are illegal in YAML. Did you mean to use whitespace character instead? This is why, do you have tabs? ---
**Author:** ![krish0608](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/krish0608/32/6797_2.png) [@krish0608](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krish0608)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-email-configuration-error/33127/3 "2015-10-28T07:36:47Z")
No,i dont think so..!! ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-email-configuration-error/33127/4 "2015-10-28T08:08:09Z")
But elasticsearch thinks you do. 😛 I'd trust elasticsearch and double check. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-email-configuration-error/33127/5 "2017-07-05T23:42:14Z")