# SMTP settings in pmm-server

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/smtp-settings-in-pmm-server/5354>\
**Category:** PMM 1.x\
**Created:** [January 18, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/smtp-settings-in-pmm-server/5354 "2017-01-18T09:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndyBehr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/andybehr/32/1155_2.png) [@AndyBehr](https://forums.percona.com/u/AndyBehr)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/smtp-settings-in-pmm-server/5354/1 "2017-01-18T09:54:58Z")

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Hi everyone,

I am trying to setup some alarms in the Dashboards. I just cannot figure out how to change the SMTP settings.  
It is set to localhost but that does not work. So I want to change that to my email server.

Anyone know how to do that?

Andy

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**Author:** ![Mykola](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mykola/32/30_2.png) [@Mykola](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mykola)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/smtp-settings-in-pmm-server/5354/2 "2017-01-18T13:25:08Z")

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Hi Andy,

you can change config file.  
documentation - [URL][Configure Grafana | Grafana documentation](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/configuration/#smtp%5B/URL%5D)  
but please keep in mind that you lose your changes after docker image update

```auto
[smtp]
;enabled = false
;host = localhost:25
;user =
;password =
;cert_file =
;key_file =
;skip_verify = false
;from_address = admin&#64;grafana.localhost

```

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**Author:** ![AndyBehr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/andybehr/32/1155_2.png) [@AndyBehr](https://forums.percona.com/u/AndyBehr)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/smtp-settings-in-pmm-server/5354/3 "2017-01-19T05:07:52Z")

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I had tried that. But changes in the file /etc/grafana/grafana.ini do not have any effect.

After changing the settings and restarting the services, the default values are still active.

So I assume, the actual config is overwritten from somewhere else.

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**Author:** ![Barrett](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/barrett/32/15734_2.png) [@Barrett](https://forums.percona.com/u/Barrett)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/smtp-settings-in-pmm-server/5354/4 "2017-01-19T10:32:15Z")

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Hi Andy,

Does your grafana.ini file’s SMTP section look something like what I posted below? Can you post it?

```auto
[smtp]
enabled = true
host = fqdn:port
user = myuser
password = mypass
cert_file =
key_file =
skip_verify = false
from_address = admin&#64;grafana.localhost

```

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**Author:** ![Mykola](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mykola/32/30_2.png) [@Mykola](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mykola)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/smtp-settings-in-pmm-server/5354/5 "2017-01-19T15:41:42Z")

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Hi Andy,

I entered AWS SES smtp server credentials, everything is working fine.

my steps:

1. run bash inside container

```auto
docker exec -it pmm-server /bin/bash

```

1. open editor on /etc/grafana/grafana.ini file

```auto

[smtp]
enabled = true
host = email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:25
user = SOME_ACCEESS_ID
password = SOME_SECRET_ID
;key_file =
;skip_verify = false
from_address = from-email&#64;some-domain.com

```

1. save changes and exit from containers bash
2. restart container

```auto
docker restart pmm-server

```

1. go to Grafana “login” page [url][http://PMM.SERVER.IP/graph/login[/url]](http://PMM.SERVER.IP/graph/login%5B/url%5D)
2. click “Sign up”
3. enter another email and press “sign up” button
4. find email in your mail client