Setting up E-mail notifications to have Acronis Drive Monitor send alerts and regular disk reports

This article applies to:

• Acronis Drive Monitor

Introduction

You can configure Acronis Drive Monitor to send E-mail alerts when disk problems are detected and regular disk reports to an E-mail address.

Solution

1. Start Acronis Drive Monitor and click Options:

   

2. On the Alerts tab, next to the E-mail addresses, click Change settings:

   

3. On the E-mail settings page, type in the settings for your mail server:

   

4. Click Send test message to make sure the settings are correct:

   

Example: Setting up Gmail notifications

• Email address: your Gmail address;
• From: Name that will be displayed in the From field;
• Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
• Port: 465
• User name: your Gmail address;
• Password: your Gmail password;
• Use encryption: SSL