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pacifiquen
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Hello Team,

 

I need your help, i was in process of creating splunk email alert but got an issue as shown in the picture below ,
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Please help me, Thank you in advance

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

here is instructions how to use Gmail account with splunk. https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Unable-to-send-test-email-from-Splunk/m-p/667242/highlight/...

This has changed couple of year ago as @PickleRick said.

r. Ismo

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

here is instructions how to use Gmail account with splunk. https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Unable-to-send-test-email-from-Splunk/m-p/667242/highlight/...

This has changed couple of year ago as @PickleRick said.

r. Ismo

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You're trying to send via gmail using SMTP AUTH and apparently gmail doesn't support that (as far as I remember Google stopped supporting "normal" authentication like plain login in IMAP or SMTP AUTH quite a few years ago).

 

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