Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 135)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 135 Advanced configuration
Configure email notifications
To set up email notifications, do the following:
1. Expand Advanced Configuration, expand Notifications, right-click Email and select
Properties.
2. Enable the use of email by selecting the Enable email check box.
3. Specify required properties (see "Message Settings (email)" on page 135).
4. Choose a schedule profile to associate with your email notifications. Your system comes with
two simple schedule profiles, Always on and Always off, which you cannot edit or delete. If
these do not meet your needs, you can create any number of customized schedule profiles for
each camera. You can reuse a customized schedule profile for more than one purpose if you
want to.
Message Settings (email)
Specify the following message settings for email:
Name Description
Enable
Select to enable the use of email notifications, allowing you to
specify further properties.
Recipient(s)
Specify the email addresses to which the system should send email
notifications. To specify more than one e-mail address, separate the
e-mail addresses with semicolons (example: [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]).
Subject text Enter a subject text for email notifications.
Message text
Enter a message text for email notifications. Note that camera
information as well as date and time information is automatically
included in email notifications.
Variables
Click a link to include a variable to the notification. The options are:

Name of triggering event

Camera name

Trigger time (the time when the notification was registered)

Error text (for example, camera failure)
Ignore similar messages for:
Specify the number of seconds to ignore sending similar
notifications. This function is to ensure that you do not receive too
many notifications before you have solved the relevant problem.