Email Action - Mail Destination

How to get here

Use this dialog to create or edit an email action.

• Name. Enter a unique name for this action.
• Description. Enter a short description of the action. This is displayed in the Action Library along with the entry in Name.
• SMTP Mail Server. Enter the IP address or Host (DNS) name of your email server (SMTP mail host).
• Port. Enter the port number that the SMTP server is installed on.
• Timeout. Enter the amount of time (in seconds) to wait for user authentication on the SMTP server. The authentication fails if this time limit is exceeded.
• Mail To. Enter the email addresses you want to send the alert to. Email addresses must be fully qualified. You can enter two addresses, separated by commas (but no spaces). The address should not contain brackets, braces, quotes, or parentheses.
• SMTP server requires authentication. Check this option if your SMTP server uses authentication. This enables the Username and Password fields.

  The Email action supports three authentication types:

  • CRAM-MD5
  • login
  • plain

  The authentication type is not configurable. It is negotiated with the SMTP server automatically.

• Username. Enter the username to be used with SMTP authentication.
• Password. Enter the password of the username to be used with authentication.

• Use an encrypted connection (SSL/TLS). Check this option if your SMTP server requires the data to be encrypted over a TLS connection (formerly known as SSL).

Tip: To check the status of an action, or to cancel an action, or group of actions, on the console go to Tools > Running Actions.