SMTP Settings

Several components of Security Manager and FMOS itself can send notification messages by email. FMOS supports several configuration modes for sending these messages:

• Configuration Mode—configures how email messages will be delivered to their recipients:

• Direct will be delivered directly to the mail server responsible for the recipient email addresses, found by querying looking up the MX records in DNS.

• Relay will send all email messages to a relay server or “smart host” for delivery.

• None will discard and never deliver messages.

• Relay Host—if the Send email through an SMTP relay delivery method is selected, value indicates the host name or IP address of the relay server through which all messages will be sent.
• Relay Port—the TCP port on which to connect to the SMTP server on the remote host.
• Security Mode—selects the security capability to use when communicating with the SMTP relay server; has no effect on direct email delivery.

The legacy method of wrapping the entire SMTP communication in an SSL session, known as “SMTPS” is not available.

• Authentication—selects the authentication method to use when communicating with the SMTP relay server; has no effect on direct email delivery.

Only the “plain” authentication mechanism is currently supported. Since this method sends the username and password in clear text, it should only be used when STARTTLS security is enabled.

• Username/Password—the credentials to use when authentication required for communicating with the SMTP relay server; has no effect on direct email delivery.

Recommendation: Ensure that SMTP is working correctly so that a password recovery email can be sent / received.