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These Policies govern the notifications and E-Mail servers.

 

System Settings_Email

 

Enable E-Mail reminders and notifications from the application?

Possible Values:

Yes, No

Default Value:

No

Notes:

This policy identifies whether the system will send out standard e-mail reminders and notifications to Employees who are assigned to complete Learning and Growth Reviews.

This policy works in conjunction with the next two policies to determine how to send E-Mail notifications.

This policy applies only to notifications from the application and not notifications sent from the Data Integration function (See Data Integration & Import Policies).

Important Note: Do not enable this option unless you are sure that the ability to send E-Mail notifications has been set up on your server (either DBMail or SQL Mail). Contact your technical support department for further information.

 

Server Address for sending outgoing email

Notes:

In order to enable outbound email, set this to your outgoing SMTP server

Port to use for contacting the outgoing SMTP server.

Possible Values:

587

Default Value:


Notes:

Common values are 25 for an unencrypted connection and 587 and 465 for an encrypted connection.

 

Use SSL/TLS encryption to communicate with the email server.

Possible Values:

Yes,No

Default Value:

Yes

Notes:

Set to true to require an encrypted connection to the SMTP server

 

The username to use for sending email

Notes:

Leave blank to attempt connecting to the server using no username or password.

 

The email address to use for sending outgoing emails.

Possible Values:

ex.EncompassingVisions@example.com

Notes:

Users receiving emails will see it as from this address. They may try to reply to this address. This should typically be a valid email domain and address even if nobody receives emails.

 

Description for From Address field. E.g. 'Encompassing Visions Administrator'.

Possible Value: Ex. Encompassing Visions Administrator

Note:

The human-readable friendly name for the From email address

 

The password to use for sending email

ex. ******

Notes:

Will be sent to the server if a username is set. (This value is stored in encrypted format.)

 

Test Email

Notes: The ability for System Administrator (IT) to send out a test email will be sent to verify the email configuration.