E-mail Notification

By default, to monitor the status of your tasks, you must open the program's main window and locate them in the Task View pane. For added convenience, you can receive notifications about task results via email. This feature is specific to each task and needs to be enabled individually for every task. For more details, please refer to New Task: Pre-, Post-Operation Actions.

Email notifications are sent by the Server component of the software. In the settings, you need to specify the parameters of your mail server, including the sender, message template, and more.

To enable email notifications, please follow these steps:

1. Check Use email notification and complete the following fields:

Note: If you are unsure of the exact parameters for your SSL protocol, set this option to "OS default." Modify this value only if you know you need to change this parameter!

Note: On operating systems earlier than Windows 8, the ability to use international email addresses (i.e., those containing Unicode characters) is disabled.

• SMTP server: The mail server used to send emails.
• Connection type: Select the connection type used by your email service.
• SSL protocol: Specify the SSL protocol required by your mail server.
• From: Enter the same email address as in the "User" field below.
• To: One or more target email addresses where you wish to receive notifications.
• Subject: The subject of the email.
• Body: Click Edit Message Body to modify the welcome message, signature, etc.

2. Check Use SMTP notification if your SMTP server requires authentication. Enter the necessary information in the User and Password fields.

Gmail. Sign in to your email account and set up an app password for Handy Backup according to the instructions on the support page.

Yahoo Mail. Create an app password according to the instructions on the Yahoo Help page.

Outlook. Go to your email account and set up two-factor authentication following the instructions on the Microsoft support page.

Zoho Mail. Access your account and generate an app password by following the instructions on the Zoho Help page.

3. Click Send Test Message to verify that all fields are configured correctly.