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System Tray Notification of Events

Notifications of events in the mail system can be setup in the system tray of your desktop or laptop. A notification can be any event that you setup in the mail system. Some example of Events are:

Email received
Email Sent
Calendar event
Task reminder
Disk space usage
etc

To utilise the system tray notification tool please follow these instructions:

Install the Smarternotify software which can be downloaded at: http://www.creativeanswers.com.au/portals/0/tools/smarternotify_setup.exe
Start the software by double clicking teh icon on your desktop
Select Smartermail on the left
Go to Manage -> New Connections
Enter a Profile Name. This can be any text but typically your name
The Provider should be Smartermail 5.5 or later
The server address is http://bizmail.creativeanswers.com.au/Services/svcNotifications.asmx
The Username is your full email address
The password is your webmail password
Enter in your email address
Click on Save
Go to Manage -> Settings
Set the options you want enabled or disabled
Save any changes
Go to http://bizmail.creativeanswers.com.au
Log in to your email account
You need to create the Events you want to be notified about. These instructions show how to setup email notification
Select the Settings icon
On the left bar, Select Events
Select New Event
Enter an Event name, eg Email Received
Set the Event Category to Email
Set Event Type to Message Received
Select Actions
Select Add Action
Set Actions to Use My Notifications Profile
Set Maximum Frequency to None
Select Save
You will now get notification on your desktop/laptop of any emails received

Other events can be setup as needed for notification.

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