https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/email-alerts-not-working/m-p/438862#M11402 <P>okay, so my mail server was wrong. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span><BR /> I updated it and the command succeeds, but I still don't receive an email. Is there a log file I can look to for hints on this?</P> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:01:09 GMT sprimerib 2018-06-06T14:01:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/email-alerts-not-working/m-p/438861#M11401 <P>I made sure my server email settings look right, but when trying to test the email function with:</P> <P>source="/var/log/messages" host="devrep" |head 5 | sendemail to="" sendresults=true</P> <P>I get:</P> <P>command="sendemail", [Errno -2] Name or service not known while sending mail to: </P> <P>(form is stripping my email addr btw)</P> <P>Any idears?</P> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:39:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/email-alerts-not-working/m-p/438861#M11401 sprimerib 2018-06-06T13:39:57Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/email-alerts-not-working/m-p/438862#M11402 <P>okay, so my mail server was wrong. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span><BR /> I updated it and the command succeeds, but I still don't receive an email. Is there a log file I can look to for hints on this?</P> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:01:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/email-alerts-not-working/m-p/438862#M11402 sprimerib 2018-06-06T14:01:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/email-alerts-not-working/m-p/438863#M11403 <P>got it. once the email server (and my local outlook rules) were updated, it works. sorry for the false alarm. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:46:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/email-alerts-not-working/m-p/438863#M11403 sprimerib 2018-06-06T14:46:16Z