Setting up Email Notification Alerts

Email Notification means that you are alerted at a specified email address whenever a keyword is detected. While you're at work and the kids are home alone, you are not in the dark regarding what they're doing on the computer.

Use the Email Notification settings to:

Turn the Email Alert feature on and off.

Define the notification interval.

Select the appropriate server through which the email will be sent.

Record and test the email address to which email notifications will be sent.

To setup email notification alerts:

From the Email Notification pane:

1. Send Email Notification - If a keyword list has been constructed, one or more sources selected for scanning, and this box is checked, Spector Pro sends you an email at set intervals, each time one of those words is detected. The default is NOT to send email notifications. Click to receive email notifications, and the checkmark appears.  

2. Once Every . . . Mins - Use the up or down arrows to select the frequency with which you want to receive email notification alerts. Spector Pro can send you an alert each time it detects a new keyword (this does not include multiple instances in a single location). However, to ensure that you are not flooded by emails, you can set the notification interval. Spector Pro sends an alert only once, for any given keyword, during the specified interval. It will NOT send subsequent alerts until the configured number of minutes has passed. The default interval is 5 minutes.

3. Server Type - It is likely that the typical home will not have to change this setting. Much of the time using SpectorSoft Server is the appropriate choice. However, many networks use their own SMTP servers and block access to all others. If you do not want your alerts relayed through the SpectorSoft email server, if you have the ability to capture email attachments larger than 50 kb, or if you are a corporate user with a firewall, you may have to select one of the other options. The default is to use the SpectorSoft server.

Use the dropdown list to select the appropriate server type for delivering email notification alerts to your inbox.

• SpectorSoft Server - Email alerts are sent through the SpectorSoft email server. This is the default and no changes on the Email Settings window are required. You may go there to change Optional Email Settings or to configure a proxy server. See Advanced Email Alert Settings.

• Direct SMTP - Select this if the monitored computer exists behind a firewall which blocks access to the SpectorSoft server and the email alert must be sent through a Direct SMTP server (e.g., a BellSouth server). If an email and an attachment are captured, they can both be forwarded. The limit to the attachment size is restricted by the Direct SMTP server. See Advanced Email Alert Settings.

• Relay SMTP - Select this if the monitored computer is part of a Local Area Network (LAN) and the email alert must be sent through a Relay SMTP server. If an email and an attachment are captured, they can both be forwarded. The limit to the attachment size is restricted by the server. See Advanced Email Alert Settings.

• Exchange Folder - Select this if the monitored computer is connected to a Microsoft Exchange public folder. If selected, the Email Address field is replaced with a Folder Path field. Enter the appropriate location (folder path) to which emails are sent and from which they are received. No changes on the Email Settings window are required, although you may go there to change Optional Email Settings. See Advanced Email Alert Settings.

4. Email Address - Type the email address at which you want to receive email notification alerts.

5. Adjust Advanced Email Alert Settings, if necessary.

6. Test Email - Click to ensure that email notification alerts can be sent. A message appears telling you that this action will save the current settings, and asking if you wish to continue. Click Yes to register the email address, or No to stop the process. If you select Yes and the test is successful, you will receive an email message stating that you can start receiving email notification alerts. In addition, a message appears informing you that the test email message has been successfully sent.

See Receiving Email Notification Alerts.

7. Click OK to save the changes you have made, or Cancel to discard them. The Settings window closes.

Next you will review Advanced Email Alert Settings.