Alerts with GMail

[thomashigginson]

I am having trouble setting up an Alert to send to my gmail account. I understand that I can't just add my email to the alert list when it prompts me to, and I am having trouble adding it to the .conf file for the alert. Does anyone have a link to a step by step of setting up a gmail with splunk or can explain?

[rroberts · Accepted solution]

My alert__actions.conf has:

[email]  
auth____password = $1$BYVD6C83ppxa  
auth___username = rickxxxx@gmail.com  
mailserver = smtp.gmail.com  
reportServerURL =   
use_tls = 1  

I simply filled out the form at : Settings -> System settings -> Email alert settings

[henerywatson]

thanks for share this steps..