# Configure the default Email Notification Channel

In Data Mover, a **System Email Notification Channel** is configured by default with an SMTP Client Connection that requires a few parameters to finalize its configuration, as described in the following steps:

1. Go to **Setup** → **Notification Channels** and edit the **System Email Notification Channel** entry in the result set.
2. In the EDIT CHANNEL page, some fields are already filled in but you can change them according to your needs:
   1. **Name**: this field cannot be modified.
   2. **Description**: this field cannot be modified.
   3. **Select Connection**: this is the SMTP server that will be used to send emails. **defaultSMTPClientConnection** is selected but needs further configuration! In the drop-down list, click **Show all** to open the **Manage Connections** window where you must edit the defaultSMTPClientConnection clicking the pencil icon and adding these parameters:
      1. **Host**: address of the SMTP server.
      2. **Port**: port of the SMTP server.
      3. **Username**: user identifier for the SMTP connection.\
         Note: It can be overwritten by the notif-chan-mail-from setting, described on the [Email sender for the Notification Channel](/data-mover-1.21/how-to.../...-fine-tune-data-mover-with-advanced-settings/email-sender-for-the-notification-channel.md) page.
      4. **Password**: password.
      5. **Match server hostname**: enable this toggle switch if the DN certificate must contain the same IP as the HOST.
      6. **Client KeyLabel**: enter the key identifier to create the SSL connection.
      7. **SSL authentication protocol**: enables a secure connection. Select All or Only specific Values. Note that to correctly configure the connection for ICAP, you need to choose this value: STARTTLS.
      8. **Accepted cipher suites**: select All or Only specific Values.
      9. **Sign key alias**
      10. **Connection security**
      11. **Max retries**: enter the maximum number of reconnection attempts.
      12. **Configuration test**: select the cluster where you want to test your configuration.
   4. Click the **Confirm** button, select the connection, and click the **Select** button to go back to the **New Channel** window.
   5. **Select cluster**: select a different cluster or leave the cluster selected.
   6. **Select template**: select a template for the email that will be sent following events occurring during the flow:
      1. **Data Watcher**: in this tab, you can configure the templates that will be used as the body of the emails sent for cut-offs ended with an error, cut-off warning (when the cut-off is about to expire), flow completed successfully, and flow in error.
      2. **SYSTEM**: use this tab to configure the template for the Password reset management. Note that the SYSTEM tab appears only in the defaultSMTPClientConnection channel.
      3. **CONTRACT**: in this tab, you can configure the template that will be used in the emails sent for generic local actions triggered by the EVENT NOTIFICATION service task.
      4. **ICAP**: in this tab you can configure the templates that will be used as the body of the emails sent for these 4 ICAP events: AV breach detected, DLP breach detected, server unavailable and file scan skipped.
      5. **CENTRAL LOG**: in this tab, you can configure the templates that will be used as the body of the emails sent for INFO, WARNING, and ERROR log notifications. If you want to configure a single template covering all levels, use the **Default Template** option. If you do not want notifications to be sent, leave the event without a template.\
         To associate a template, select it in the list. If you need to load a new template, see the [Load a new template](/data-mover-1.21/notification-channels/manage-templates/load-a-new-template.md) section in this manual.
   7. Click the **SAVE** button to confirm the options edited for the channel.

{% hint style="info" %}
You may need to configure different email templates for different users, for example, because Business users are not interested in the details of the errors of a flow, while these details are definitely useful for Admin users. To set different email templates to be sent to different categories of users, you can define 2 notification channels and assign the proper templates to each of them. For example, you can create:

* a **Business Users Notification Channel** with only the default template with mandatory Macros configured.
* an **Admin Users Notification Channel** with the default template and the four specific templates available with mandatory and non-mandatory Macros.

Then, in DATA WATCHER you will just need to select the Business or Admin Channel and enter the actual Recipients.
{% endhint %}


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