https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Sendemail-script-execution-failed-and-no-python-log-entry/m-p/410261#M10929 <P>I am unable to get the sendemail command to send an email via either a saved search, or an on demand search. In the case of an on demand search (sample:)</P> <PRE><CODE>index=dnsf "*error*"| stats count by host | sendemail to=firstlast@xxx.com server=xxx-smtp.xxx maxtime=2m </CODE></PRE> <P>The job times out with message "Script execution failed for external search command 'sendemail'". In the case of saved searches, I can see in the jobs log that the job completed, but there is no evidence that an email was fired or even attempted. </P> <P>From reading other postings here, I have attempted to examine the python.log for evidence of email behavior but a wildcard search of the python.log returns no results... thank you for any help that you can afford</P> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:32:38 GMT cwilliamsonHFE 2018-06-26T17:32:38Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Sendemail-script-execution-failed-and-no-python-log-entry/m-p/410261#M10929 <P>I am unable to get the sendemail command to send an email via either a saved search, or an on demand search. In the case of an on demand search (sample:)</P> <PRE><CODE>index=dnsf "*error*"| stats count by host | sendemail to=firstlast@xxx.com server=xxx-smtp.xxx maxtime=2m </CODE></PRE> <P>The job times out with message "Script execution failed for external search command 'sendemail'". In the case of saved searches, I can see in the jobs log that the job completed, but there is no evidence that an email was fired or even attempted. </P> <P>From reading other postings here, I have attempted to examine the python.log for evidence of email behavior but a wildcard search of the python.log returns no results... thank you for any help that you can afford</P> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:32:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Sendemail-script-execution-failed-and-no-python-log-entry/m-p/410261#M10929 cwilliamsonHFE 2018-06-26T17:32:38Z