Configure SMTP alerting in order to send mails via GMAIL servers

Details

How to configure email settings in Master Node in order to report alerts.
 

Requirements/Conditions/Restraints

Instructions

Follow these steps:

1. configure C:\RCS\DB\config\config.yaml as follow:

SMTP: smtp.gmail.com:587

SMTP_USER: your_account@gmail.com

SMTP_PASS: your_password

SMTP_AUTH: login

SMTP_STARTTLS: true

SMTP_FROM: your_account@gmail.com

SHORT_EMAIL: false

2. enable access to less secure apps on GMAIL here:

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

3. grant access to external application for 10 minutes by going to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and clicking on Continue;

4. ensure an RCS user group with the alert flag set to true (and at least a user in it with a valid email);
5. send a test email to that user with the command 

rcs-monitor --cli -d -v