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GFI Network Server Monitor Configuring monitor functions • 54
• The sender’s and recipient’s email address. For more information
on how to configure these parameters refer to the ‘Configuring the
sender’s and recipient’s email address’ section.
• The SMTP server through which the test email will be sent (i.e.,
the SMTP server to be checked). For more information on how to
configure these parameters, refer to the ‘Configuring the SMTP
Server details’ section below.
• The POP3/IMAP server through which the test email will be
delivered (i.e., the POP3/IMAP server to be checked). For more
information on how to configure these parameters, refer to the
‘Configuring the POP3/IMAP Server details’ section below.
• The frequency at which this check will verify if the test email was
delivered to the destination mailbox. This means that if you set the
check email delivery value to 30 seconds, this check will access
the destination mailbox two times per minute until the email is
found or until the (test) email delivery is timed out.
NOTE: You cannot configure a ‘Check email delivery …‘ value
which is greater than the specified timeout value.
• The test-email delivery timeout value. This is the time during which
the check will verify if the test email was delivered to the
destination mailbox. In other words, this is the time allocated for
the test email to travel between the SMTP server and the
destination mailbox. If the email is not delivered to destination
within the specified time, a timeout occurs and the Email route
check will fail.
• Optionally, GFI Network Server Monitor can delete the test email
once the delivery is confirmed. To automatically delete the test
email, select the ‘Delete sent email once delivery is confirmed’
option at the bottom of the Email Route check parameters dialog.
NOTE 1: The Email Route check is successful ONLY if the test email
is present in the destination mailbox. This means that on heavy-traffic
or slow networks, you must configure enough delay between the
sending and the verification of delivery stages to allow enough time for
the test email to arrive to destination.
NOTE 2: Make sure that the email client of the recipient (i.e., the
person to whom you have addressed the test email) is not open.
Otherwise, the test email might be immediately downloaded from the
POP3/IMAP server to the client before the delivery verification takes
place, hence causing the check to fail. A separate mailbox which is
used only by GFI Network Server Monitor should be used.