Email SMTP port setting

[Steven Denham]

Hello,

We are trying to set up email alerts and have added the settings in the config file, but it seems to be giving us errors. I cannot find anywhere how to specify the port for the SMTP server. 

We have tried both this:

        <smtp_server>192.168.100.25:2500</smtp_server>
Which gives us an unable to connect to server error message in the log.

And this:

        <smtp_server>192.168.100.25</smtp_server>

        <smtp_port>2500</smtp_port>

Which seems to prevent the service from starting at all.

Does anyone know the correct configuration for this?

Thanks,

Steve

[Harshal Paliwal]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for using the Wazuh.

Inside the <smtp_server> tag you can provide only below values. you can't add the port like this or there is no <smtp_port> tag.

• Valid hostname or IP address.

• Full path to a sendmail-like executable.

You can get more details from here: https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/reference/ossec-conf/global.html#smtp-server

FYI, Wazuh email alerts does not support SMTP servers with authentication such as Gmail. However, you can use a server relay, like Postfix, to send these emails.

You can provide this port into the SMTP configuration.

Reference:

https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/manager/manual-email-report/smtp-authentication.html

I hope this information helps you. Please feel free to reach out to us.
Regards,