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This information is stored in plain text in the Elasticsearch cluster. We will improve this design in the future, but for now, the encoded credentials (which are neither encrypted nor hashed) might be visible to other Elasticsearch users.
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### Email as a destination
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### Email as a destination
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To send or receive an alert notification as an email, first select **Email** as the destination **Type** for the alert. Next, you must add at least one sender and a recipient. We also recommend adding email groups if you want to notify more than a few people of an alert. You can configure senders and recipients using **Manage senders** and **Manage email groups**.
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#### Manage senders
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Manage senders allows you to configure and manage **Sender** email addresses. Senders are email accounts from where the alert notification is sent to different recipients or email groups.
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To configure a sender email, do the following:
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1. Choose **Manage senders**.
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1.Once you choose **Email** as the destination **Type**, Choose **Manage senders**, under settings. You can also do this using the **Actions** button on the top right of the **Destinations** page.
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1. In the **Manage email senders** modal window, choose **Add sender**, **New sender**. Multiple senders can be added one at a time.
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1. Enter a unique **Sender name**.
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1. Enter the **Email address**, SMTP **Host** (e.g. `smtp.gmail.com` for a Gmail account), and the **Port** number.
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1. You can choose to use an **Encryption method** or leave it as **None**. However, most email providers require SSL or TLS and this requires you to add a username and password to the Elasticsearch keystore. Refer to [Authenticate sender account](#authenticate-sender-account) to learn more.
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1. Choose **Save** to save the configuration and create the sender. You can create a sender even before you enter your credentials for SSL or TLS. However, you must [authentcate each sender account](#authenticate-sender-account) with credentials before you use the destination to send your alert.
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1. Choose **Save** to save the configuration and create the sender. You can create a sender even before you enter your credentials for SSL or TLS. However, you must [authenticate each sender account](#authenticate-sender-account) with credentials before you use the destination to send your alert.
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Once the sender is created, the sender account is available to be selected when creating an email destination. You can reuse senders across many different destinations, but each destination only supports one sender.
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You can enter individual email addresses, or an email group in the **Recipients** field. For email groups, you can pre-create a group using **Manage email groups**.
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To create and manage email groups, do the following:
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1.Choose **Manage email groups**, and then **Add email group**, **New email group**.
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1.Once you select **Email** as the destination **Type**, choose **Manage email groups**, and then **Add email group**, **New email group**. You can also do this using the **Actions** button on the top right of the **Destinations** page.
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1. Enter a unique **Email group name**.
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1. For recipient emails, enter any number of email addresses.
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1. Choose **Save**.
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#### Authenticate sender account
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You must authentcate each sender account with credentials before you send your alert from that account to recipients or email groups. You can enter these credentials in the Elasticsearch keystore using the CLI. Run the following commands (in your Elasticsearch directory) to enter your username and password. The `<sender_name>` is the name you entered for **Sender**.
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You must authenticate each sender account with credentials before you send an alert notification from that account to recipients or email groups. You can enter these credentials in the Elasticsearch keystore using the CLI. Run the following commands (in your Elasticsearch directory) to enter your username and password. The `<sender_name>` is the name you entered for **Sender**.
**Note**: The keystore settings are node-specific. You must run these commands on each node.
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{: .note}The keystore settings are node-specific. You must run these commands on each node.
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To change or update your credentials (once you've added them in the keystore settings for every node), you can call the reload API to ensure that your new changes are automatically updated on every node. Run this command to call the reload API:
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