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Summary: This article provides the steps for creating and configuring email profiles within VDM. Email profiles are essential for utilizing the Schedulers automated email feature.

Why Create Email Profiles?

Email profiles help you send notifications about tasks, like whether they succeed or fail. They’re also used to email reports created by the Scheduler.

Where Do You Create Email Profiles?

You can set up email profiles in the Profiles tab, which is located in VDM's settings.

Video Tutorial:

Steps to Create an Email Profile

1. Click the Settings tab located at the bottom of the VDM screen.

2. Click Profiles on the left side of the VDM screen.

3. Configure the Email settings.

Check with your email provider or email administrator for the following settings.

• Mail Server: The name (like mail.example.com) of your email server.

• Port: The number your email uses to send messages, such as 25, 465, or 587.

• Username: The login name for the account sending the email.

• Password: The secret code for the account—keep this safe!

• Recipient (To): This is the email address of the person who gets notified when a job succeeds or fails.

• Sender (From): The email address connected to the account that's sending the messages.

Example Profile Setup

4. Please note that you can send a test email to verify your configuration by clicking, Send Test Email.

5. Click the Save button to save the new email profile.