https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-sending-email/m-p/454909#M7351 <P>Hello Found the problem - McAfee Enterprise Ver. 8 was blocking the emails.<BR /> from a search on my error messages - From the StackOverflow web site:</P> <P><STRONG>McAfee was blocking it for me. I had to allow the program in the access protection rules<BR /> 1.Open VirusScan<BR /> 2.Right click on Access Protection and choose Properties<BR /> 3.Click on "Anti-virus Standard Protection"<BR /> 4.Select rule "Prevent mass mailing worms from sending mail" and click edit<BR /> 5.Add the application to the Processes to exclude list and click OK</STRONG></P> <P>My fix was to in-check "Block" - I have a closed network so we are good.</P> <P>eholz1</P> Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:05:33 GMT eholz1 2019-08-20T18:05:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-sending-email/m-p/454908#M7350 <P>Hello All,</P> <P>I have splunk enterprise at 7.3.1 on Windows 2012 server.<BR /> I am trying to configure alerts to send email.<BR /> I have an smtp email server which requires no authenification.<BR /> Splunk thinks it sends email with an alert but then I get the error message below:</P> <P>[Errno 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions while sending mail</P> <P>The windows firewall is off.<BR /> Has anyone else seen this error message? How to fix?</P> <P>Thanks,<BR /> eholz1</P> Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:47:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-sending-email/m-p/454908#M7350 eholz1 2019-08-20T17:47:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-sending-email/m-p/454909#M7351 <P>Hello Found the problem - McAfee Enterprise Ver. 8 was blocking the emails.<BR /> from a search on my error messages - From the StackOverflow web site:</P> <P><STRONG>McAfee was blocking it for me. I had to allow the program in the access protection rules<BR /> 1.Open VirusScan<BR /> 2.Right click on Access Protection and choose Properties<BR /> 3.Click on "Anti-virus Standard Protection"<BR /> 4.Select rule "Prevent mass mailing worms from sending mail" and click edit<BR /> 5.Add the application to the Processes to exclude list and click OK</STRONG></P> <P>My fix was to in-check "Block" - I have a closed network so we are good.</P> <P>eholz1</P> Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:05:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-sending-email/m-p/454909#M7351 eholz1 2019-08-20T18:05:33Z