Email
You can set up Surveillance Station to automatically send you system notifications by email.
Note:
- To integrate notifications for both DSM and Surveillance Station, please refer to Advanced.
- Even if you have enabled the notification integration function in the Advanced tab, the Attach an event snapshot and Enable email interval limit options in the Email tab are available for Surveillance Station's events only.
To set up email notifications using a third-party provider:
- Tick the Enable email notifications checkbox.
- Enter one or more email addresses in the Recipients field. Email notifications will be sent to your specified addresses.
Note: Any two addresses should be separated with a semicolon (;).
- You may add a subject header in Subject prefix. This prefix will be added to the subject of each message sent by Surveillance Station, helping you identify and filter messages sent by Surveillance Station.
- Select your email service provider from Service provider.
Note:
Gmail uses a different authentication mechanism. If you choose Gmail as the service provider, click Log in to Gmail to proceed with the settings.
- Tick Attach an event snapshot if you wish to receive snapshots with notifications.
- Tick Enable email interval limit if you do not wish to receive too many notifications of the same event, and specify how frequently you wish to receive them in the Minimum interval between each message (minutes) field.
Note: To reduce the number of notifications, you can also try lowering the sensitivity and increasing the threshold of event detection, or go to the Advanced tab to modify Notification Combination Settings.
- Enter your email account information in Username and Password.
- Click Send a test email and then OK to see if your settings are correct. Check your settings if no test email is received.
- Click Save to save your changes.
To set up email notifications using a custom SMTP server:
- Tick the Enable email notifications box.
- Enter one or more email addresses in the Recipients field. Email notifications will be sent to your specified addresses.
Note: Any two addresses should be separated with a semicolon (;).
- You may add a subject header in Subject prefix. This prefix will be added to the subject of each message sent by Surveillance Station, helping you identify and filter messages sent by Surveillance Station.
- Select Custom SMTP server from Service provider.
- Enter the SMTP server name or IP address in SMTP server.
- Enter the SMTP port number in SMTP port. If you have specified a different SMTP port while setting up port forwarding rules, please enter that number instead.
- If your SMTP server requires SMTP authentication, check the Authentication required box and enter your account information in Username and Password.
- If your SMTP server requires an SSL/TLS connection, check the Secure connection (SSL/TLS) is required box.
- You may customize the sender's name that appears on email messages sent from Surveillance Station by entering a name in Sender name. You may also customize the sender's email address by entering an email address in Sender email. If this field is blank, the email address in Primary email will be used.
- Tick Attach an event snapshot if you wish to receive snapshots with notifications.
- Tick Enable email interval limit if you do not wish to receive too many notifications of the same event, and specify how frequently you wish to receive them in the Minimum interval between each message (minutes) field.
Note: To reduce the number of notifications, you can also try lowering the sensitivity and increasing the threshold of event detection, or go to the Advanced tab to modify Notification Combination Settings.
- Click Send a test email and then OK to see if your settings are correct. Check your settings if no test email is received.
- Click Save to save your changes.
Account information restrictions:
- Username and password restrictions will differ according to the service provider and SMTP server you use. Please refer to guidelines for your service provider or SMTP server for more information.
SMTP Server Domain Name:
- The SMTP server can be an IP address or a domain name. If it is a domain name, please make sure both a valid DNS server IP has been entered at DSM > Control Panel > Network, and the server is connected to the Internet.