How to configure send e-mail alert properly
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:57 am
The email alerts are sent using SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol). You must have an email account in order to use the the e-mail alert functionality. So, before using "send email alert" in any strategy you must configure the SMTP setting properly.
To configure you must know:
1) The host name of the outgoing mail server.
2) The port of the outgoing mail server (if it is different from the standard STMP port: 25).
3) The user name and password (if the server requires authorization).
We will discuss how to find the proper mail server and its parameters below.
When the outgoing mail server and its parameters are know, please go to the Marketscope, then choose File->Options menu and then go to the "Strategies Option" option section:
1) Enter the name of the outgoing mail server into SMTP server address. If the specific port is required, enter port after a colon character, e.g.
2) If authorization is required - enter the user name and password into into SMTP user and SMTP password. If authorization is not required - just leave these options empty.
3) Enter the email address you want to send the emails from. Please note that some servers does not send emails if the "from" address does not registered on this server.
4) Enter the email address you want to send the emails to by default. This address will be used as a default value of the email parameters in the strategies. If you plan to send the email alerts to the same address all the time, just enter it here and you won't enter it every time when a new strategy or signal is started.
To configure you must know:
1) The host name of the outgoing mail server.
2) The port of the outgoing mail server (if it is different from the standard STMP port: 25).
3) The user name and password (if the server requires authorization).
We will discuss how to find the proper mail server and its parameters below.
When the outgoing mail server and its parameters are know, please go to the Marketscope, then choose File->Options menu and then go to the "Strategies Option" option section:
1) Enter the name of the outgoing mail server into SMTP server address. If the specific port is required, enter port after a colon character, e.g.
myserver.mydomain.com:465
2) If authorization is required - enter the user name and password into into SMTP user and SMTP password. If authorization is not required - just leave these options empty.
3) Enter the email address you want to send the emails from. Please note that some servers does not send emails if the "from" address does not registered on this server.
4) Enter the email address you want to send the emails to by default. This address will be used as a default value of the email parameters in the strategies. If you plan to send the email alerts to the same address all the time, just enter it here and you won't enter it every time when a new strategy or signal is started.