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Configuring Email Notifications in Skyring
Skyring server can be configured to send email notifications to registered users. If configured correctly, skyring will send e-mail notifications about state changes and threshold breaches. For this you will have to first configure the email notifier i.e you will have to register a valid email address with skyring from which skyring will send email notifications.
To configure the skyring mail notifier fill the form provided in Mail Settings page in UI, Email Settings page can be found at Admin section --> Mail Settings.
The details to be entered are as follows:
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Check the "Email Notifications" check box. This can also be used to disable the overall email notifications from skyring, if needed.
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Enter the correct smtp server address in "Outgoing MailServer SMTP Address" box. This is the smtp server of the email address that you are going to register. Few examples of smtp server addresses are as follows: gmail --> smtp.gmail.com, yahoo --> smtp.mail.yahoo.com .
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Check the correct radio button for the type of encryption. Either SSL or TLS.
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Enter the Port number of the smtp server to be used in "Port" box. Please note that the port number normally depends on the type of encryption. generally port 587 is for TLS and port 465 is for SSL.
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Enter the email address that you want to register in the "User Name" field. Please enter the full email address. eg: [email protected]
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Enter the valid password for the above mentioned email address.
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Enter a suitable subject prefix in "Subject Prefix" field. All the emails sent by skyring server will have this subject prefix.
Now before saving this configuration you, can verify whether you have got all the details right by using the Test mail notifier, this can be done as follows:
After entering all the details mentioned above, enter an e-mail address in "Test Message Recipient" field and press the Test button. If the details you provided is accurate, a sample e-mail will be received by the above mentioned e-mail address from the registered email.
If your test is successful, you can go ahead and save the mail notification configuration by pressing the "save" button.
After you have configured the mail notification, you will have to subscribe the notifications to all interested users of skyring.
To subscribe email notification for a user use "User" page. Click on "Admin" go to "User" , this will list all the users in skyring, in the 6th column you can see if email notification is enabled for a user or not. If you want to change the current settings, click on the "Actions" drop down and click "Enable/Disable Notification". If you want to change the email address of the user, use "Edit User" in the "Actions" drop down.
If email notification is configured, then all the users for whom notifications is enabled in "Users" page and have a valid email address will receive the notifications from skyring server.
NOTE: Few mail servers like gmail might not allow you to use a email address from their domain to be registered with skyring directly, You will have to change the default security settings in your gmail account that you want to register.