# Setting up SMTP communication in OD for Kibana

**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/setting-up-smtp-communication-in-od-for-kibana/4615
**Category:** Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana
**Created:** [January 19, 2021, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/setting-up-smtp-communication-in-od-for-kibana/4615 "2021-01-19T06:27:24Z")
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### Author: ![Saravana37](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Saravana37](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/Saravana37)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/setting-up-smtp-communication-in-od-for-kibana/4615/1 "2021-01-19T06:27:24Z")

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Hello All ,

I have a question regarding the solution provided in the below URL .

[Solution for Email configuration Kibana](https://medium.com/bluekiri/kibana-mail-alerting-with-logstash-43fb9e4789f2)

I have confugred SMTP in logstash as per the solution .I want to send the Message as Body for email. I tried but it is not working. Please let me know how to configure this .

```
input { http { } }

output {
  email {
    from => 'no-reply@XXXXX.com'
    to => 'saravana.selvaraj@XXXX.com'
    address => 'XX.XXX.XX.XX'
    subject => 'Alert - ELK'
    body => "%{message}"
      }
}

```

Thanks and Regards  
Saravana S

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### Author: ![mmamaenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@mmamaenko](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/mmamaenko)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/setting-up-smtp-communication-in-od-for-kibana/4615/2 "2021-01-19T14:47:21Z")

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What is wrong with Email Destination in OD Alert plugin? OD version 1.11 has it and it is working fine

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### Author: ![Saravana37](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Saravana37](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/Saravana37)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/setting-up-smtp-communication-in-od-for-kibana/4615/3 "2021-01-20T06:00:54Z")

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Hello @mmamaenko ,

I was not aware of this feature availability since i am using 1.6.0 version .

I will check the new version . Thanks for your help.