# Alerts sending issue to an email from local host emoncms **URL:** \ **Category:** Emoncms\ **Tags:** emoncms\ **Created:** [22 December 2020 19:56 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/alerts-sending-issue-to-an-email-from-local-host-emoncms/16316 "2020-12-22T19:56:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Usman36264](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Usman36264](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/Usman36264)\ **Post date:** [22 December 2020 19:56 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/alerts-sending-issue-to-an-email-from-local-host-emoncms/16316/1 "2020-12-22T19:56:08Z")
I am struggling with sending email alerts (to an email address) for specific cases from my logs in emoncms. Any help in this regard would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![johnbanks](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@johnbanks](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/johnbanks)\ **Post date:** [23 December 2020 21:16 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/alerts-sending-issue-to-an-email-from-local-host-emoncms/16316/2 "2020-12-23T21:16:39Z")
@Usman36264 Input Processing does have a facility to send a data value to an email address. Guide/Learn/Resources have no recent detailed explanation that I can find and the latest relevant Forum post seems to be … > [@Configuring "send email process"?](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/configuring-send-email-process/15009): > > Is there a guide how the “send email process” is set up working ? At least the below seems to work, but its linking to a detached swiftmailer git HEAD… also it took quite some time to figure out so wondering if there is an easier to find way ? Install swiftmailer: git -C /opt/emoncms/modules clone -b ‘v5.4.8’ --single-branch [GitHub - swiftmailer/swiftmailer: Comprehensive mailing tools for PHP](https://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer.git) Then add the following with your own email server info to the end of the /var/www/emoncms/settin… But I have never tried to use this facility. **However I do use the emon system to send emails regarding aspects of the system operation as follows** (working in an SSH terminal) … ```auto Create a script that checks what I want and save it to /home/pi/check.things.sh (as an example) Make the script executable with: chmod+x /home/pi/check.things.sh Create the message to be sent and save it to /home/pi/email.message.txt (as an example) Create a cronjob to run the script at the desired times as follows: Do: crontab -e and enter the following at the end then save and exit: MAILTO=MyEmailAddress 1 0 * * sun /home/pi/check.things.sh The above example runs the script at 00:01 every Sunday ``` However, the first time I tried this I had problems … It is necessary to install an up to date mail transfer agent MTA as follows: ```auto sudo apt-get install msmtp msmtp-mta mailutils Then create the log file & open up permissions … sudo touch /var/log/msmtp.log sudo chmod 777 /var/log/msmtp.log Then create the msmtp configuration file with the content shown … sudo nano /etc/msmtprc defaults auth on tls on tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt logfile /var/log/msmtp.log account gmail host smtp.gmail.com port 587 from name@gmail.com user name@gmail.com password GmailTwoFactorPassword account default : gmail Finally open up permissions by doing: sudo chmod 777 /etc/msmtprc ``` You will note the references above to gmail. I discovered that my ISP would not accept emails to my regular email address from an emon mail server (security issue?). So I used my alternative gmail address and set up Two Factor Authentication. ```auto You can send a test message with: echo "Message" | mail -s "Title" MyEmailAddress And read the log with: tail -f /var/log/msmtp.log ``` And if you’d prefer to use phone text messages rather than email then check out: > **[Business SMS: Text Messaging Service Since 2001 | Textmagic](https://www.textmagic.com/business-text-messaging/)** > > Textmagic is a business text messaging service for sending SMS messages, notifications, alerts, reminders and text message marketing campaigns. Free Trial! Texts are sent as if an email to: [MobileNumber@textmagic.com](mailto:MobileNumber@textmagic.com) They cost 4p. Hope some of this may help.