Matt Coles THanks your comments. I already used the lastest version, but here has an error message I didn't know how is coming...

Could you help me look at it and how to solve this problem

Error Message:

Update YAML :

# Local paths settings
log.dir: ".\\logs\\"                            # folder write dump log files to. Will be created if it does not exist.
log.dir.file_retention_seconds: 432000          # retain log files for default of 5 days
log.level: DEBUG                                # level of log verbosity
schedule.state.dir: ".\\ops\\"                  # file written to keep the last run state for schedules
temp.dir: ".\\temp\\"                           # folder to write temporary files to (csv, png for viz exports). Will be created if it does not exist.
temp.dir.file_retention_seconds: 86400          # retain temp files for default of 24 hours, mostly for debugging

# Email settings
smtp.serv: 192.168.16.5                             # name of the smtp mail server (change for production use; default is only set to "localhost" for ease of testing with PaperCut: https://papercut.codeplex.com/)
smtp.port: 25                                       # port to user for SMTP server (default is 25)
smtp.address.from: BGI-BI@genomics.cn               # default sender for all alerts mail
smtp.address.to: zhangnanju@bgi.com;jiezhen@bgi.com                    # email address of admin to send failures to

smtp.subject: 'ALERT: VizAlerts failed to execute properly'  # subject line in exception emails sent to admin
smtp.ssl: false                                 # use encryption when connecting to SMTP server
smtp.user: BGI-BI@genomics.cn                                 # username for account used to connect to SMTP server (null for no authentication)
smtp.password: 'C:\VizAlerts\mcoles\password.txt'   # password for account used to connect to SMTP server (null for no authentication)
                                                    # This can either be a plaintext password enclosed in single quotes, e.g. 'myp@ssw0rd'
                                                    # OR it can be a valid path to a .txt file containing the password, e.g. 'c:\users\mcoles\password.txt'
# Tableau Server settings
server: 192.168.53.16                           # the Tableau Server instance your alerts will reside on. Recommend using the fully-qualified name, e.g. 'myserver.mydomain.com'
server.version: 10                              # the major version of Tableau Server that this is running against (just ensures correct URLs in email footers)
server.user: BGI-BI                             # this is ANY user licensed in Tableau Server--it does not need to be an Admin. It must have access to download summary data from vizalerts.source.viz
server.user.domain: null                        # the domain for the server.user account.
                                                  # Leave as null (no quotes) if Tableau Server uses local authentication
                                                  # Set to the domain if using AD authentication, e.g. 'mycompany.com'
vizalerts.source.viz: 'VizAlertsConfig/ScheduledTriggerViews'     # Viz to pull list of alerts from. Must be of the form 'WorkbookURL/ViewUrl'
vizalerts.source.site: 'Default'                # Site that the vizalerts.source.viz exists within. Leave as 'Default' if using the default site.

# Security settings
server.ssl: false                               # use HTTPS for Server connections (recommended, but left off by default for testing)
server.certcheck: false                         # if using HTTPS, validate the certificate (recommended, but left off by default for testing)
                                                   # If you turn this on you MUST specify a certificate bundle in server.certfile
server.certfile: null                           # Full path to the set of trusted CA certificates to verify your SSL certificate on Tableau Server in .pem format
                                                    # example: 'c:\\certificates\\cacert.pem'
trusted.useclientip: false                      # use clientip for trusted tickets verification
                                                    # This is optional. Please see http://onlinehelp.tableausoftware.com/current/server/en-us/trusted_auth_optional.htm
trusted.clientip: null                          # IP address of THIS host. Only needed if trusted.useclientip is set to true. Otherwise, just leave it null.

# SMS Settings
smsaction.enable: false                         # use these settings to enable SMS messages. If false, we won't even check them, and all SMS attempts will fail
smsaction.provider: twilio                      # the only allowed provider currently is twilio
smsaction.account_id: ''                        # account ID, for Twilio this is the account SID from http://twilio.com/user/account
smsaction.auth_token: ''                        # auth token, for Twilio http://twilio.com/user/account
                                                    # This can either be a plaintext password enclosed in quotes, e.g. 'eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciO...'
                                                    # OR it can be a valid path to a .txt file containing the auth token, e.g. 'c:\users\mcoles\authtoken.txt'

# Processing settings
threads: 2                                      # Number of threads VizAlerts will use to process alerts
                                                     # Higher = More alerts process at once, increased server load
                                                     # Lower = Fewer alerts processed at once, decreased server load
                                                     # Content references within a single alert are processed serially

data.coldelimiter: ','                          # Character used to separate field values in CSV files exported from Tableau Server
                                                     # Some regions use semicolons for this, in which case switch it to ';'

Matt Coles  Hi Matt, for twilio account I'm not sure sth and I wanna ask you.

1.When I registered in twilio website and I got the account ID and auth token, so i can apply this two things into yaml file. so when yaml setting done,  can I say I can get the sms in my cell phone when I run that same email  script?

2.If i get the sms in my cell phone, can I say when I run the script once, and I can get one sms message? and is it for free, right?

Thanks Matt Coles your response. But somehow I still not receive the sms message to my cell phone. Not sure where's error problem.  For safe reason, I have sent the yaml file and error message to your mail-box instead of here. so could you help me to look at it.

Thanks Toby Erkson your response, but whatever my topic in here is " SMS Vizalerts Error Message ", and I ask question is related with Twilio and SMS message questions, so I think my question not fix currently, Could you also help me to fix it? Thanks much.

Thanks Toby Erkson your new method. It seem sounds interesting another way to send message. But can I know this method can do the Warning threshold function? and what the pricing for this method? Could you send me the whole yaml file with this method for me look at it? Thanks much~

Thanks Toby Erkson.  Just one quick question, I see your copy below message in your reply there, may I know put this word in which file? (.*@messaging\.sprintpcs\.com|.*@txt\.att\.net  )

and I still not clear this method much, could you tell me more details

Thanks Matt Coles , it's very helpful. May I know this guideline have another language versioin, such like chinese version for reading?