Email Configuration
Here, you set a mail server for the log messages that the firewall generates. This mail server will send the email messages to the email addresses set on the Log Classes page. If the connection between the firewall and the mail server isn't working, an error message will be shown on this page, and be logged according to the log class set on the Logging Configuration page. However, no error message will be shown here if the primary mail server can't connect to other mail servers. Therefore you should test if email log messages to the addresses set under Log Classes really reach their destination addresses.
Every log message does not create a separate email; the firewall collects log messages and sends them every 5 minutes. The first message is sent within a minute.
Email sent from the firewall has the From address "Ingate Firewall".
Email server
Here, you enter the DNS name or IP address of the mail server.
Save
Saves the configuration for Email Configuration to the preliminary configuration.
Undo
Reverts the field to its previous configuration.
Status for outbound email
A message is shown here if the firewall can't connect to the mail server selected under Email server, or if other errors concerning email occur. To indicate this error further, the activity LEDs on the firewall front go out and the ALERT LED is lit. On an Ingate Firewall 1200, only the ALERT LED is lit..