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ERROR:root:Error while running alert email: Error connecting to SMTP host: [Errno 111] Connection refused

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Hi everyone, I have finished elastalert-create-index and got the status created. But when I started to add log into elasticsearch, elastalert can’t send out email to alert me.

ERROR:root:Error while running alert email: Error connecting to SMTP host: [Errno 111] Connection refused
INFO:elastalert:Ignoring match for silenced rule Example rule
INFO:elastalert:Ignoring match for silenced rule Example rule
INFO:elastalert:Ignoring match for silenced rule Example rule
INFO:elastalert:Ignoring match for silenced rule Example rule
INFO:elastalert:Ignoring match for silenced rule Example rule
INFO:elastalert:Ran Example rule from 2016-07-11 17:34 UTC to 2016-07-11 17:37 UTC: 543 query hits, 108 matches, 0 alerts sent
INFO:elastalert:Sleeping for 59 seconds

I have checked the previous post (https://github.com/Yelp/elastalert/issues/256) and set my example_rules/example_frequency.yaml file as following

# (Required)
# The alert is use when a match is found
alert:
- "email"

# (required, email specific)
# a list of email addresses to send alerts to
email:
#- "elastalert@example.com"
- "--my email--"
from_addr: "--my email--"

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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ShaneC-C-Ycommented, Jul 11, 2016

hi Quentin Long, thank you very much. Now I can receive the email. My setting is the following:

email:
#- "elastalert@example.com"
- "chienyuc@elementaltechnologies.com"
smtp_host: "smtp.gmail.com"
smtp_port: 465
smtp_ssl: true
from_addr: "chienyuc@elementaltechnologies.com"
smtp_auth_file: '/opt/elastalert/smtp_auth_file.yaml'

if I keep port 587, the error message is like this:

ERROR:root:Error while running alert email: Error connecting to SMTP host: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol

BTW, I received this error message if I didn’t create I new password

ERROR:root:Error while running alert email: Error connecting to SMTP host: (534, '5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at\n5.7.9  https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 i187sm5150287pfc.62 - gsmtp')

So we need to create another password to use, steps are here: (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833)

Hope it can help others, thank you again!

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ShaneC-C-Ycommented, Jul 11, 2016

Thank for your help, sorry I am not familiar how to use SMTP server. This is my setting:

# (required, email specific)
# a list of email addresses to send alerts to
email:
#- "elastalert@example.com"
- "chienyuc@elementaltechnologies.com"
smtp_host: "smtp.gmail.com"
smtp_port: 587
smtp:ssl: true
from_addr: "chienyuc@elementaltechnologies.com"
smtp_auth_file: '/opt/elastalert/smtp_auth_file.yaml'

and the smtp_auth_file.yaml is

---
user: ---my-full-email---
password: ---my-email-login-password
...

but it still doesn’t work

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