Notifications : Configuring FortiRecorder to send notification email
 
Configuring FortiRecorder to send notification email
For FortiRecorder to send email, you must specify an SMTP server to use.
1. Go to System > Configuration > Mail Server Settings.
2. Configure these settings:
Setting name
Description
Host name
Type the host name for the appliance. By default, it uses its serial number.
The host name can be up to 35 characters in length. It can include US‑ASCII letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores, but not spaces and special characters.
The host name of the FortiRecorder appliance is used in multiple places.
• It is used in the command prompt of the CLI.
• It is used as the SNMP system name. For information about SNMP, see “SNMP traps & queries”.
The get system status CLI command displays the full host name. If the host name is longer than 16 characters, the name may be truncated elsewhere and end with a tilde ( ~ ) to indicate that additional characters exist, but are not displayed.
For example, if the host name is FortiRecorder1234567890, the CLI prompt would be:
FortiRecorder123~#
Mail server name
Type the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of your SMTP server, such as mail.example.com.
If you do not have your own email server, this is often the name of your ISP’s SMTP relay, or a 3rd-party email server such as Yahoo! or Gmail.
Ensure that the DNS settings are configured. See “Configuring the network settings”.
Mail server port
Type the port number on which your email server or SMTP relay listens for connections from clients.
The default varies by whether you enable Use SMTPS: disabled, it is port 25; enabled, it is port 465.
Use SMTPS
Enable to initiate SSL- and TLS-secured connections to the email server if it supports SSL/TLS.
When disabled, SMTP connections from the FortiRecorder appliance’s built-in email client to the SMTP server will occur as clear text, unencrypted.
This option must be enabled to initiate SMTPS-secured connections.
3. If the email server requires SMTP authentication (i.e. it uses the SMTP AUTH command), also enable Authentication Required, then configure these settings:
Setting name
Description
User name
Type the name of the account, such as jdoe or fortirecorder@example.com, that FortiRecorder will use to log in to the SMTP server.
Password
Type the password for the account on the SMTP server.
Authentication type
Select one of the following authentication methods:
• AUTO — Automatically detect and use the most secure SMTP authentication type supported by the email server.
• PLAIN — Provides an unencrypted, scrambled password.
• LOGIN — Provides an unencrypted, scrambled password.
• DIGEST-MD5 — Provides an encrypted MD5 hash of the password.
• CRAM-MD5 — Provides an encrypted MD5 hash of the password, with hash replay prevention, combined with a challenge and response mechanism.
4. If you want to customize the FortiRecorder’s sender email address so that, for example, replies are sent to the network administrators rather than the appliance, then configure these settings:
Setting name
Description
Sender display name
Type the display name, such as Surveillance System, that will be displayed in the From field or column by email clients such as Outlook and Thunderbird. Leaving this setting empty will cause FortiRecorder to use the default value, postmaster.
Sender address
Type the sender email address (From:), such as donotreply@example.com, that will appear in the SMTP header. Leaving this setting empty will cause FortiRecorder to use the default value, postmaster@example.com.
Unlike the display name, depending on the client and its settings, this may not be visible.