This section describes how to configure e-mail alerts.
To configure e-mail alerts
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Navigate to Basic Settings > Management > Mail settings.
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Enter the IP address or the hostname of the mail server into the SMTP server address field.
Figure 33: Basic Settings > Management > Mail settings — Configure e-mail sending
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Enter the e-mail address where you want to receive e-mails from into the Send e-mails as field. This can be useful for e-mail filtering purposes. syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) sends e-mails from the address provided here. If no e-mail address is entered, e-mails will be sent from the default e-mail address.
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Enter the e-mail address of the administrator into the Administrator's e-mail address field. SSB sends notifications related to system-events (but not alerts and reports) to this address.
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Enter the e-mail address of the administrator into the Send e-mail alerts to field. SSB sends monitoring alerts to this address.
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Enter the e-mail address the person who should receive traffic reports from SSB into the Send reports to field. For details on reports, see Reports.
Caution: To get alert e-mails, provide an e-mail address in this field. Sending alerts fails if these settings are incorrect, since the alerting e-mail address does not fall back to the administrator's e-mail address by default.
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Click Test to send a test message.
If the test message does not arrive to the server, check if SSB can access the server. For details, see Troubleshooting SSB.
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Select in which situations SSB should send an e-mail alert. For details, see Configuring system monitoring on SSB.
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