Configuring Email Notifications Parent topic

You must set up an email server and then configure the email notification settings to send the invitation or reset password emails to the users.
Use Email Notifications screen to configure email notifications in Virtual Mobile Infrastructure.

Procedure

  1. On the Email Settings tab, configure the following:
    • From–type the address from which you want to send the email notification. SMTP
    • SMTP Server–type the SMTP server name or IP address.
    • Port–type the SMTP server port number.
    • Authentication–if the SMTP address requires authentication, select this option and type the following information:
      • User name
      • Password
    • Use TLS protocol for authentication–if the SMTP server requires TLS protocol for authentication, select this option.
  2. Click Test Connection to verify SMTP server address and port number.
    Note
    Note
    This test does not verify the user name and password configured to access the SMTP server.
  3. Select Automatically send email notification to new users if you want to send an invitation email to new users that are added from LDAP.
  4. On the Invitation Email Template Settings tab, type the following:
    • Subject–the subject of the email message.
    • Message–the body of the email message.
      Note
      Note
      While editing the Message field, make sure to include the token variables %(name)s, %(username)s and %(password)s, which will be replaced by the actual values in the email message.
  5. On the Reset Password Template Settings tab, type the following:
    • Subject–the subject of the email message.
    • Message–the body of the email message.
      Note
      Note
      While editing the Message field, make sure to include the token variables %(name)s, %(username)s, %(password)s, which will be replaced by the actual values in the email message.
  6. Click Save to save settings.