Email Alert Setup Guide (EDM)

This section describes how to set up your email settings for Gmail

  • Navigate to Tools > Global Settings or click Ctrl+G
  • Go to Mail settings
  • Set the related parameters for Gmail (see POP, IMAP, and SMTP | Gmail):
    • SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
    • SMTP port: 587
    • Enable SSL encrypted connection enable
      • Note: SSL encrypted email sending can only be done through PC (Spider cannot send SSL encrypted emails in black-box mode)
    • Account / Password: your email and App Password

To create an App Password for Gmail, follow these steps, as it replaces the email’s password for third party access for better security.

  1. Sign into your Google Account
  2. Turn on 2 step verification
  3. Go to the App Password page: App Password)
  4. Add new App Name such as EDM
  5. A 16-char password will display once (you will not be able to access this code again)

This section describes how to set up your email settings

  • Navigate to Tools > Global Settings or click Ctrl+G
  • Go to Mail settings
  • Set the related parameters for Outlook (see POP, IMAP, and SMTP settings for Outlook.com):
    • SMTP server: smtp-mail.outlook.com
    • SMTP port: 587
    • Enable SSL encrypted connection enable
      • Note: SSL encrypted email sending can only be done through PC (Spider cannot send SSL encrypted emails in black-box mode)
    • Account / Password: your email credentials

This section describes how to send emails

  • Open Config / Setup > Test Configuration or click Ctrl+T
  • Go to Event actions
  • Click Add a user event and assign it a name such as Email
  • Select the Email event in the dropdown and fill out the relevant email fields
  • Edit the Run schedule to send email where relevant