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Create and configure the AlertmanagerConfig component for sending e-mails. As you can see, Gmail is used as the mail server here. First of all it is advisable to generate a password dedicated to this purpose and insert it provider here. It isn’t recommended that you use your personal password for this, so you should create an App Password. To do that, go to Account Settings -> Security -> Signing in to Google -> App password (if you don’t see App password as an option, you probably haven’t set up 2-Step Verification and will need to do that first). Copy the newly-created password in the Secret below, after having encrypted it with the command echo <password> | base64 -w0.
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