Description

The E-mail notifications menu allows to send messages using e-mail. Each message can contain any description and attachment with selected Logical channels or Groups. E-mail notifications can be used as devices state report when an alarm or a specified signal occurs. This report will be sent to all the declared recipients.

In case of any sending error (e.g. connection with network error) messages can be saved in a queue where they are waiting to be sent, however sending and saving to the queue can not occur more often then once a minute which means that any faster than one minute message trigger will be ignored. Additionally, this queue can not be longer than 10 messages and when it fills up the appearance of a new message will delete the oldest one and the new one will be placed into the queue. When the connection is re-established, the device will send messages in the queue as one e-mail with all the awaiting attachments. All the messages from all the queues will be lost when the device is switched off or when power fails.

There are 32 available Messages which can be configured independently and each of them can be sent to several recipients.

The parameters on the e-mail notifications menu are:

E-mail configuration – menu which contains the sender account parameters,

• Mode – switches e-mail notifications on and off:
  • disabled,
  • enabled,
• Sender name – text which will be displayed in the Name field in the user’s email account.
• Sender address – sender e-mail address which will be used by the device to send messages to recipients,
• Login – sender e-mail account login,
• Password – sender e-mail account password (every sign is displayed as an asterisk,
• SMTP server – sender e-mail account server address,
• SMTP port – sender e-mail account server port number,
• Security – security mode which is used by the sender’s e-mail server,
  • none – no security,
  • STARTLS – establishes TLS encryption in a network connection when communication with server is realized on unencrypted port,
  • SSL/TLS – the server uses SSL or TLS encrypted communication on the selected port,
• Retry every [min] – parameter which describes how much time must elapse before the device will try to send messages again after failure,

Messages – menu which defines up to 32 messages,

• Mode – switches on and off a particular message,
  • disabled,
  • enabled,
• Recipient(s) – parameter which contains e-mail address (addresses) of the recipient (recipients). All recipients must be separated from each other with a comma or comma and space signs but there can not be more than 78 signs in total,
• Subject – subject of the message,
• Message text – additional message text which can be used as a description of triggering occurrence,
• Attachment – parameter which defines what should be attached to the message. Every message must have an attachment,
  • disabled – attachment will not be created and message will not be sent. When the Attachment parameter is set as disabled all the parameters described below are not visible,
  • channels – attachment will contain Logical channels selected by the user,
  • groups – attachment will contain Groups selected by the user,
• Selected channels – parameter which is visible only when the Attachment parameter is set as channels. Allows to select logical channels from the list which must be included in the attachment. Until no channel is selected in this parameter, all the parameters described below will not be visible,
• Selected groups – parameter which is visible only when the Attachment parameter is set as Groups. Allows to select Groups from the list which must be included in the attachment. Until no Group is selected in this parameter, all the parameters described below will not be visible,
• Retry when failed – parameter which defines if the messages the device was unable to send will be stored in a queue or not,
  • yes – messages will be stored in a queue and sent again,
  • no – messages will not be stored and sent again,
• Expiry period – this parameter is visible only when the Retry when failed parameter is set as yes. Defines for how long (in hours) a message will be stored in a queue since its first send failure,
• Triggering channel – parameter which contains a list of channels where the selected one will be a triggering source for the message,
• Trigger mode – parameter which allows to select the message triggering method,
  • rising edge – switching value in the channel from less or even to zero (≤ 0) to value greater than zero (> 0) will trigger the message,
  • falling edge – switching value in the channel greater than zero (> 0) to value less or equal zero (≤ 0) will trigger the message.