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General operation of the E-mail system.
The recorder sends messages for distribution by an
E-mail Server
. The E-mail serv-
er is located by its
IP Address
as set-up in the communications set-up options. When
the recorder sends an E-mail message, it locates the E-mail server and uses SMTP (Sim-
ple Message Transfer Protocol) to send the message to the E-mail server. SMTP allows
the recorder to send messages to an E-mail server without having its own E-mail ad-
dress; because of this the E-mail server will not be able to send any reply back to the
recorder.
When setting-up the E-mail address list, it is important to include the E-mail adminis-
trator address. The
Administrator E-mail Address
is the E-mail address to where the
E-mail server will respond in the event of any problems with the delivery of E-mail mes-
sages. The Administrator will also appear to be the source of any E-mail messages sent
by the recorder. Most E-mail systems require a ‘Reply To’ address as part of an E-mail
message, since the recorder does not have its own E-mail address; it uses the E-mail
administrator as the ‘Reply To’ address.
Any E-mail message will consist of a delivery list (recipients), a subject, and an op-
tional message body. The message body may be omitted for very short messages, or
where the message is to be sent to a paging system.
Setup auto e-mailing
The
E-mail Subject
may be either one of the existing
Event Markers
, or one of the
two E-mail subjects. E-mail subjects can be preset into the E-mail system e.g. a Report
required to log the same information as a regular event.
E-mails can be made up from:-
' $%2:
%2:
&
Or combinations of 1, 2 and 3.
The
E-mail message body
may be either one of the existing event markers, or one
of the two E-mail message blocks.
Event Markers
are restricted to 80 characters each.
The two E-mail message blocks are restricted to just over 1000 characters each. Both
the message subject and body may contain embedded marker tags as used in the event
markers.
When the recorder sends an E-mail message that includes a message body, the re-
corder name, recorder number and the time/date will be appended to the end of the mes-
sage body text. This is to allow easy identification of when the message was sent, and
by which recorder.
Any E-mail message is sent as an effect within the recorder events system, so any-
thing that can be configured to act as an event cause may be configured to send an e-
mail message. Any E-mail message may be sent to up to sixteen of the recipients. If the
E-mail server supports named groups of e-mail addresses, an E-mail message may be
sent to a combination of E-mail addresses and E-mail groups.