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Environmental Monitoring Unit: User’s Guide 22
Configuring and Using Email Notification
Configuring SMTP and DNS Settings
Requirements for
using SMTP
To use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send email when an
event occurs, you must define the following settings:
• The IP address of the Domain Name Service (DNS) server.
• The DNS name of the
SMTP
server and the
From Address
settings for
SMTP.
• The email addresses for a maximum of four recipients.
Note:
To page an email recipient who uses a text-based pager
gateway, see the description of the
To Address
setting
in
Settings on page 21.
DNS server
To enable the Environmental Monitoring Unit to send email messages,
you must use the
TCP/IP & DNS
option (Web interface) or
DNS
option
(Control Console) in the
Network
menu to identify the Domain Name
Service (DNS) server by its IP address.
If the unit does not receive a response from the DNS server within five
seconds, email cannot be sent. Therefore, use a DNS server on the
same segment as the unit or on a nearby segment (but not across a
WAN).
After you define the DNS server’s IP address, verify that DNS is working
correctly by entering the DNS name of a computer on your network to
obtain the IP address for that DNS name.
SMTP settings
The
Email
option in the
Network
menu accesses the following SMTP
settings:
Setting
SettingSetting
Setting Description
DescriptionDescription
Description
SMTP Server
The DNS name of the SMTP server.
From Address
The contents of the
From
field in the email messages sent by
the Environmental Monitoring Unit.
Note:
See the documentation for your SMTP server to
determine whether you must you use a valid user
account on the server for this setting.