Email Alert

Overview

This action sends an email alert when a new message group is flagged, using SMTP credentials provided during setup.

Email alerts are useful as a cross-platform push notification of potential new threats in the email environment.

Alert contents

Email alerts are plaintext emails with the following format:

Subject: 
Mailbox: 
Recipients: 
Rules flagging:
Actions triggered:

Any links present are defanged.

How to create an email alert

1. Click "Actions" in the left nav of your Dashboard
2. Click "New action" in the top right
3. Select "Email alert"
4. Provide a name, recipients, sender email address, and related sender credentials for the alert
5. Click "Save"

SMTP server configuration settings

Any SMTP server/app password should work, but we've included server settings for common services below.

SMTP user name

For SMTP servers such as Amazon Simple Email Service that support authentication using a user name other than the sender email address, provide that user name in the optional SMTP user name (optional) field when creating your email alert action in Sublime.