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Email(SMTP)

Used to configure the email sending service for alarm notifications.

Create Email (SMTP) Service

  1. Click "Alarming" -> "Alarm Notifications" -> "Services" to open the “Services” list page. alt text
  2. Click the "Add" button. In the new pop-up window, select "Email (SMTP)". alt text
  3. Click "Next" to enter the detailed configuration window. alt text
  4. After setting up, click the "Connection Test" button to check if the connection is successful.
  5. If the test is successful, click the "OK" button to add the data.

Properties

Name Description
Name Notification service name.
Description Notification service description.
From Address Email account required for sending emails.
SMTP Server SMTP server address required for sending emails.
Secure Connection SMTP server secure connection method.
SMTP Port SMTP server port address.
User Name User name for logging into the SMTP server (usually the sender’s email account).
Password Password for logging into the SMTP server (usually the sender’s email password).
SMTP Timeout(ms) SMTP server connection timeout.
Connection Test Click the button to test if the email configuration is successful.

Setting a GMAIL Password

For security purposes, Google's Gmail requires the use of an app-specific password when authorizing third-party login.

To use an app-specific password, the Gmail account must have two-step verification enabled. If two-step verification is already enabled, you can proceed directly to the steps for creating an app-specific password

2-Step Verification

  1. Open your  Google Account.
  2. In the navigation panel, select Security.
  3. Under “How you sign in to Google,” select Turn on 2-Step Verification.

  4. Follow the steps.

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Sign in with app passwords

Important Note: To create an app-specific password, you must enable two-step verification for your Google account

  1. Visit the app-specific password creation webpage: https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords.
  2. Enter the name of the application that requires the password, such as "VCHub"
  3. Copy and save the app-specific password for future use

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If the following situation occurs when you open the application-specific password creation page, please refer to the above instructions, enable two-step verification, and then reopen the page

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Enable Smtp

  1. On your computer, open  Gmail
  2. In the top right, click Settings   See all settings. alt text
  3. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab. alt text
  4. In the "POP download" section, select Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.

Test Gmail

After entering your account and password(For Gmail service, please enter the application-specific password created above) on the configuration page, you can click "Connection Test " to verify whether the account credentials are correct.

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References

POP, IMAP, and SMTP settings for Outlook.com - Microsoft Support

IMAP, POP, and SMTP  |  Gmail  |  Google for Developers

How to use the Email Notification Service

In the alarm notification rules, you will select the notification service.

  1. Click on "Alarming" -> "Alarm Notifications" -> "Rules" to enter the notification rules list page.
  2. Click the "New" button in the upper right corner of the list.

  3. In the pop-up window, click the '+Email' button to add a new Email notification rule.In the notification service dropdown, select the previously created notification service.

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