https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198786#M3465 <P>Hi Jananee_iNautix,</P> <P>On the Email alert settings Settings page, you can define the Mail server settings (the mail host, security type, username, password, and so on) and the Email format (link hostname, email sender name, email subject header, and inline results format).</P> <P>In other words, you specify the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Transfer_Agent">Message Transfer Agent (MTA)</A> or mail server your Splunk server will use to send out alert emails. In <CODE>*nix</CODE> this is per default <CODE>localhost</CODE>, if it is not <CODE>localhost</CODE> enter the hostname and if needed some credential to authenticate to be able to send emails.</P> <P>hope this helps ...</P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:58:59 GMT MuS 2014-03-25T11:58:59Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198785#M3464 <P>Hi,</P> <P>Could you please elaborate on MTA settings in splunk email alerting.It would be helpful if the purpose of MTA setting and configuring is explained in detail.</P> Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:40:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198785#M3464 Jananee_iNautix 2014-03-25T11:40:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198786#M3465 <P>Hi Jananee_iNautix,</P> <P>On the Email alert settings Settings page, you can define the Mail server settings (the mail host, security type, username, password, and so on) and the Email format (link hostname, email sender name, email subject header, and inline results format).</P> <P>In other words, you specify the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Transfer_Agent">Message Transfer Agent (MTA)</A> or mail server your Splunk server will use to send out alert emails. In <CODE>*nix</CODE> this is per default <CODE>localhost</CODE>, if it is not <CODE>localhost</CODE> enter the hostname and if needed some credential to authenticate to be able to send emails.</P> <P>hope this helps ...</P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:58:59 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198786#M3465 MuS 2014-03-25T11:58:59Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198787#M3466 <P>Thanks for the answer</P> Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:33:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198787#M3466 Jananee_iNautix 2014-03-26T07:33:23Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198788#M3467 <P>You're welcome, please mark this as answered by clicking the tick and/or up vote the answer - Thanks</P> Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:36:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Configure-the-email-setting-in-alerting/m-p/198788#M3467 MuS 2014-03-26T07:36:34Z