How to Setup SMTP for Airflow

Step 1: Understand the basics of SMTP

SMTP to is a simple protocol to send emails – yes like GMAIL. For sending emails in smtp – you need client and server. You can use your own custom made SMTP server (python).
or use GMAIL as smtp server – e.g: user@myDomain.com ,

here is a link for basic GMAIL SMTP configuration:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en

Step 2: Configure SMTP client on your desktop

you can test the SMTP server , by installing email client on your desktop. It can be outlook (Paid) or thunderbird (Free):

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

The desired out put – read your own emails on a new client which IT / DEVOPS have not configured for your.

Step3: configure SMTP on Airflow configuration file

once you understand the concept  of SMTP, you can configure SMTP on airflow.cfg

[smtp]
# If you want airflow to send emails on retries, failure, and you want to use
# the airflow.utils.email.send_email_smtp function, you have to configure an
# smtp server here
smtp_host = localhost
smtp_starttls = True
smtp_ssl = False
# Example: smtp_user = airflow
# smtp_user =
# Example: smtp_password = airflow
# smtp_password =
smtp_port = 25
smtp_mail_from = omid@example.com

STEP4: Use Airflow Email Operator in your DAG

EmailOperator Example

EmailOperator Documentation

 

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