Email Alert Setup Guide (EDM)

Gmail setup

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.

Sign into your Google Account

Turn on 2 step verification

Go to the App Password page: App Password)

Add new App Name such as EDM

A 16-char password will display once (you will not be able to access this code again)

Outlook (Office365) email setup

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

Event Action rules

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