One Question, has anyone utilized the emailing components in Ignition without having direct access to a local STMP server? I have several very small clients whom do not have any onsite or otherwise email systems but would benefit greatly from email and texting services.
Regards,
-Paul
They don’t necessarily need access to a local SMTP server, it can be a public one, such as Google’s smtp.gmail.com. The problem with Google’s SMTP server is that is has been known to “blacklist” an e-mail account if it thinks that there is a robot behind it sending automated e-mails, but it might work if the number of times an e-mail is sent is infrequent. Also, the ISP that the client’s office is using may offer an SMTP server as well, but probably follows similar protocol of “blacklisting”.
Outside of those options, there are 3rd party SMTP options, but you’ll have to be careful and make sure that the SMTP server itself hasn’t been “blacklisted” by other e-mail services. Google Apps (http://www.google.com/a) has some options, but I’m not too familiar with all of the available 3rd party options, hopefully others will chime in. How often will Ignition be sending e-mails in these scenarios?
Rarely, they are small water treatment plants with few alarms if everything goes correctly. Generally speaking 10 to 20 a month would be high. They would like to have text messaging to alert them of trouble if possible.
ive used gmail with no issue, sending around 10-20 messages a day.
Many thanks; I’ll look into that. It would make the operators all happy campers.
-Paul
Be careful using gmail, especially a personal account. If you get flagged as spam Google is rather unforgiving, and you get no prior warning.