E-mail dispatching parameters

With EDT Single-user

  1. Go to the menu Configuration > Configure the sending of e-mail for this workstation.
  2. Enter the senders name and mailing address (the recipients can see these elements if the sender has an address outside the authorized domains) and specify the information concerning your SMPT server by clicking on the button . In general, you fill in the information related to your academic SMTP server: contact your academic technical service or search on the Internet, this information is often put online by the Regional Educational Board (Académies).
  3. Click on the button Test the sending of e-mail to verify the configuration. If you get the message Time limit exceeded, increase the server's waiting delay.

With EDT Network: Option1: Centralize the sending of e-mail from the server

  1. The commissioning of e-mail to the server has several advantages:

Activate the centralized sending of e-mail from the Server

  1. Go to the menu Server > E-mail dispatching parameters.
  2. Tick Delegate the sending of all e-mail to the Server EDT (or to the PRONOTE server if you are connected to a common database).
    • If you are hosted, the solution provided by Index Education does not require any configuration.
    • If not, enter the senders name and mailing address (the recipients can see these elements if the dispatching user has an address outside the authorized domains) and specify the information concerning your SMPT server by clicking on the button . In general, you fill in the information related to your academic SMTP server: contact your academic technical service or do a search on the Internet, this information is often put online by the Regional Educational Board (Académies). Eventually enter the authorized domains: if the user has entered an address which is not part of it, the name of the sender and the specified mailing address (see above) will be used to facilitate the correct reception of the e-mail (not considered as spam, etc.).
  3. Click on the button Test the sending of e-mail to verify the configuration.

    Note: even if the messaging service is configured for dispatching from the Server, each user may prefer to configure their Client for a dispatch from their workstation. For this go to the menu Configuration > Configure the sending of e-mail for this workstation he/she must select the option Define my own parameters, then fill in the information concerning the SMTP server.

With EDT Network: Option 2: Sending of e-mail via the Clients 

If the messaging service is not configured for all the users from the Server, it must be specified from Clients.

Configure the messaging service of the Client

  1. Go to the menu Configuration > Configure the sending of e-mail for this workstation.
  2. Enter the user's messaging service information in user's parameters.
  3. Enter the SMPT server information (found in the messaging service software).
  4. Click on the button Test the dispatching of e-mail to verify the configuration. If you receive the message Time limit is exceeded, increase the server's delay time limit.

Use the messaging service profiles

The SPR can configure the profiles so that the users can easily recover the connection parameters that suits them.

  1. The specification of the profiles is conducted by an administrator from his/her workstation, in the menu Configuration > Manage the e-mail dispatching profiles .
    • Click on the creation line, enter a designation easily identifiable by users who will have to recover the profile and validate with the key [Enter].
    • On the right, enter the information concerning the SMTP server.
  2. The user recovers his/her profile in the menu Configuration > Configure the sending of e-mail for this workstation .