Mail Profiles

Last modified: Mon Jul 23 23:15:00 2001

Images via Email

The MOBOTIX Camera allows to send images by email. The images are appended to a short text mail body. The sending can be nudged by periodical Time Tasks or by events definied in Event Control

Defining Profiles

To send successfully an image email needs serveral settings. They are collected in Mail Profiles. You can define up to two mail profiles.

The profiles contain the following entries:

Profile	Profile must be unique symbolic name reference to identify the profile. It is used in Time Tasks to refer to the profile. This field must be filled out.
Receiver Address	Receiver Address is the full qualified email address of the receiver of the mail.
From Address	Is the email address, that will appear as sender. Usually it is your own email address. Note that the camera does not accept incoming emails.
Reply Address	The Reply Address is the address the mail will be sent if any problem occurs on its way to the receiver. It is also used by the mailer programs to decide, where to send an answer to. Usually you should give here the email address you are used to read.
Mail Host (SMTP Host)	The Mail Host (using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) that will accept the email send by the camera and is willing to transfer it. The mail host you have to use is known by your network administrator or ISP. Ensure that DNS setting is correct, so a symbolic name of the mail host can be resolved. The network settings, especially gateway are correct, so the mail host can be reached. Any firewall in your network allows SMTP traffic from your camera to the SMTP host.
Subject	In the Subject field you can insert some words that will appear in the first part of the subject line of the mail.
remove	If the profile was accepted, the remove switch enables to remove the profile.

Saving Profiles

By pressing Check and Save the profiles are checked and saved. If any error occurs an error message will be shown, in this case the profiles will not be saved till the error is fixed.

After saving the profiles you can use them for defining Time Tasks and actions in Event Control.
Note that the EMail Profiles are not activated until the camera is rebooted.

Storing Profiles

To activate and store the profiles over a power fail of the camera you have to Store Configuration (see also Configuration).

Activating Profiles

To activate the profiles, time tasks etc., you have to reboot the camera.