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126 Publication ENET-UM001I-EN-P - January 2010
Chapter 8 Send Email
2. In the Path field, type the path for the MSG instruction.
The path starts with the controller initi
ating the MSG instruction.
a. Enter the number of the port from which the message exits and the
address of the next module in the path.
For example, if the EtherNet/IP module is in the same ch
assis as the
controller and is in slot 2, the path is: 1, 2.
For more information on configuring th
e path of a MSG instruction,
see the Logix5000 Controllers General Ins
tructions Reference Manual,
publication
1756-RM003 .
3. Click the Configuration tab.
4. Configure the MSG parameters for sending
an email.
a. From the Service Type pull-down menu, choose Attribute Single
b. In the Instance field, type 1.
c. In the Class field, type 32f.
d. In the Attribute field, type 5.
e. From the Source Element pull-down menu, choose the tag that
contai
ns y
our email text.
f. In the Source Length field, type the number of characters in the email
plus four
.
In this example, you would enter 13 for the number of characters
pl
us 4 for a total of 17.
After the MSG instruction that configures the mail relay
server executes
successfully, the controller stores the mail relay server information in
nonvolatile memory. The controller retains this information, even
through power cycles, until another MSG instruction changes the
information.
The Source Length is the number of characters in the
STRING tag that identifies the mail relay server plus 4
characters.
In this example, the tag contains 13 characters.