# Watcher gmail notification in docker-compose

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-gmail-notification-in-docker-compose/245867>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting, docker\
**Created:** [August 21, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-gmail-notification-in-docker-compose/245867 "2020-08-21T07:21:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vicom\_sistemas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@vicom\_sistemas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicom_sistemas)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-gmail-notification-in-docker-compose/245867/1 "2020-08-21T07:21:14Z")

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Hi,

I´m trying to setup watcher to send emails using gmail. I´m using a docker-compose but every time I add x-pack settings to it, I receive the following error:

unknown setting [xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.auth

My licence allows me to have watcher enabled and the ELK version is 7.8

Any ideas?

Sistemas

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**Author:** ![vicom\_sistemas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@vicom\_sistemas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicom_sistemas)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-gmail-notification-in-docker-compose/245867/2 "2020-08-21T08:02:10Z")

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java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown setting [xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.auth] please check that any required plugins are installed,

I would like to add those values using docker-compose environment options using something like this:

- xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.auth=true
- xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.starttls.enable=true
- [xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.host=smtp.gmail.com](http://xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.host=smtp.gmail.com)
- xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.port=25
- xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.user= [myemail@gmail.com](mailto:myemail@gmail.com)
- xpack.notification.email.account.smtp.password=asdfgvf

But I do not know what Im missing.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-gmail-notification-in-docker-compose/245867/3 "2020-09-16T12:36:32Z")

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you are missing an account name in your configuration, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.8/actions-email.html#configuring-email](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.8/actions-email.html#configuring-email)

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**Author:** ![vicom\_sistemas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@vicom\_sistemas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicom_sistemas)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-gmail-notification-in-docker-compose/245867/4 "2020-09-16T16:12:09Z")

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Thanks for the answer

In the end, I created the config file as volume docker compose and added the necessary parameters and its working now 🙂

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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:** [October 14, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-gmail-notification-in-docker-compose/245867/5 "2020-10-14T16:12:22Z")

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