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Configuring Email :

This is the default configuration for email settings.  This information is used to determine where basic alerts are sent to and is also used to initialize 'default' email destinations in the Dispatch Macro action's emailing steps.  If you do not want any email alerts then you just leave this tab empty.  Otherwise :

Dispatch Email/Text Message : This feature enables/disables the sending of email with your alerts.  Checking this also implies you intend to fill in account information below. 

Send to this Address : Enter the email address to send alerts to.  If this a cell phone which supports text messaging, find out what your cell phone's email address is.  The SMS Gateway information box next to this setting provides hints as to what it may be (if it is a cellphone), othewise contact your cell phone provider.

Picturephone Email Address : If your cellphone is a picturephone, it may allow you to send images to it.  This capability would depend on your wireless provider.  Also you may have webmail which does not support images and wish for images to be sent to a different email address.  You could specify that image email address here.  For cell phones, my provider (verizon) gives my phone two email address (one for images and one for text messages), i can enter both here.  Also be advised picture messages are generally more expensive than text messages.

Alert Subject Header : The message to use as the subject line for email alerts send from X10Dispatcher.

Return Address : The email address for the email account which you will later configure to send from.

Your SMTP Server : Your ISP provides a mail server which you can send and receive mail from.  There are two kinds : POP Mail Servers are for receiving mail only, SMTP Servers are for sending mail only.  Since this setting is for sending mail you need to enter the SMTP server name.

SMTP Server Authorization : This/these setting(s) should be used even if they are not required.  Enter the Username and password for your email account here.  While some SMTP servers know you are a customer without any authorization, with the increasing abuse of email spamming it is likely that this authorization is already or will soon be required.  Entering now, keeps this feature from 'breaking' when you probably would least like for it to break.

Monitor a Pop3 email inbox : These settings are optional and used for allowing X10Dispatcher to verbally announce and summarize you email inbox (using text to speech for email counts and subject headers) and allowing you to preview your email inbox over the web.  Anything that X10dispatcher does with email leaves the email intact as if it were never read, so you wont miss any emails using this feature.  To configure these settings enter the POP server name, username, and password for that email account.  (Only POP email accounts are currently supported).  No alerting is currently done on this inbox, and mail is not checked until you 'ask' for it through X10Dispatcher.

Enable Spam Prevention : I would highly recommend this feature be enabled, and it probably is by default.  Enabling spam prevention keeps haywire motion sensors from bombarding your email account with duplicate messages.  If a motion sensor fires 5 times, you might get 5 emails without spam prevention (assuming instant arming or that they fire 5 times at intervals higher than the arm delay).  Enabling spam prevention can restrict the number of emails either total or based on each trigger.  So for example, you can choose to have no more than 2 emails sent from anything within X10Dispatcher or choose to have only two emails sent per motion sensor.  The Number of emails to limit is configurable as is the option of limiting per trigger or not.

Send a Test Email : Obviously, this will send a test email alert which you can use to verify that you entered your mail server settings correctly for alerting purposes.  Highly recommeded before 'assuming' your alerts will be sent properly.