# Failed to send test alert.: SMTP not configured, check your grafana.ini config file's \[smtp\] section

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**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
**Tags:** pmm
**Created:** [November 5, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/failed-to-send-test-alert-smtp-not-configured-check-your-grafana-ini-config-files-smtp-section/26360 "2023-11-05T06:56:38Z")
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### Author: ![Vadim\_Yalovets](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vadim_yalovets/32/43_2.png) [@Vadim\_Yalovets](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vadim_Yalovets)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/failed-to-send-test-alert-smtp-not-configured-check-your-grafana-ini-config-files-smtp-section/26360/2 "2023-11-05T08:24:41Z")

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Hi Baniya,

Could run a pmm-server container with directly specified env variables?  
e.g.

```auto
docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 443:443 --name pmm-server \
--restart always \
-e GF_SMTP_ENABLED=true \
-e GF_SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com:587 \
-e GF_SMTP_USER=test@gmail.com \
-e GF_SMTP_PASSWORD=password \
-e GF_SMTP_SKIP_VERIFY=false \
-e GF_SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS=test@gmail.com \
-e GF_SMTP_FROM_NAME=Grafana \
percona/pmm-server:2

```

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