# Unable to send email notifications

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/unable-to-send-email-notifications/76441>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** alerting\
**Created:** [November 21, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/unable-to-send-email-notifications/76441 "2022-11-21T09:50:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/unable-to-send-email-notifications/76441/5 "2022-12-07T10:46:56Z")

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> [@sankarkarthik](#):
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> error msg=“Missing receiver”

@sankarkarthik

Did you see/try any of these solutions?

> [@Level=error msg="Missing receiver"](https://community.grafana.com/t/level-error-msg-missing-receiver/74114):
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> Hello, I have upgraded Grafana from 9.0.6 \> 9.2.0 and email alerts doesn’t work anymore. When I try to send test email it fails with error tls: server selected unsupported protocol version 301 and in grafana.log I see": logger=alerting.notifier.email t=2022-10-13T13:48:57.595540175+03:00 level=error msg="Missing receiver logger=alerting.notifier.email t=2022-10-13T13:48:57.595875127+03:00 level=error msg="Missing group labels" Anyone has same issue?

> [@Sending emails fails](https://community.grafana.com/t/sending-emails-fails/65143/6):
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> It seems that the SMTP parameters inside the docker-compose.yml are not complete. Please add the following and then it should work. version: "3" services: grafana: image: grafana/grafana-oss:8.2.6 container\_name: grafana volumes: - /opt/grafana-plain/docker\_volumes/grafana:/var/lib/grafana ports: - "3000:3000" environment: - 'GF\_ALERTING\_ENABLED=false' #disable dashboard alerting - 'GF\_UNIFIED\_ALERTING\_ENABLED=true' #enable alerting independent from …

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