https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391761#M173803 <P>I created a alert using in search head and scheduled by using cron job<BR /> under email settings gave hostaname and port number still am not receiving any emails am not seeing any logs in the python.log.</P> Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:02:29 GMT manekar 2019-01-05T00:02:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391759#M173801 <P>Hi,<BR /> Can you please how to to create a alert and send email using smtp server.<BR /> We have two seperate host s for indexer and search head.</P> <P>Thanks,</P> Fri, 04 Jan 2019 02:16:59 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391759#M173801 manekar 2019-01-04T02:16:59Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391760#M173802 <P>Sending email alerts via smtp is a feature splunk provides out of the box, there is no need to build it yourself.<BR /> See <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.3/Alert/Emailnotification">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.3/Alert/Emailnotification</A> for how to configure smtp servers into your splunk.</P> <P>If you just want to learn how splunk does that, see sendemail.py in etc/apps/search/bin and the corresponding alert_actions.conf entry.</P> Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:27:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391760#M173802 martin_mueller 2019-01-04T08:27:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391761#M173803 <P>I created a alert using in search head and scheduled by using cron job<BR /> under email settings gave hostaname and port number still am not receiving any emails am not seeing any logs in the python.log.</P> Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:02:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391761#M173803 manekar 2019-01-05T00:02:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391762#M173804 <P>Have a look at this answer I just made about alert_actions.conf. This might help:</P> <P><A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answering/712944/view.html">https://answers.splunk.com/answering/712944/view.html</A></P> Sat, 05 Jan 2019 01:47:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391762#M173804 burwell 2019-01-05T01:47:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391763#M173805 <P>You can do it in SPL, too, with <CODE>| sendemail</CODE>:</P> <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Sendemail">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Sendemail</A></P> Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:02:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Smtp-email-to-send-alerts/m-p/391763#M173805 woodcock 2019-02-14T03:02:48Z