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E-Mail Settings |
  
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E-Mail Settings |
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The teacher’s or student’s e-mail address must be entered in the e-mail field in the appropriate master data record.
The basic settings for e-mail distribution can be found on the “E-Mail” tab under “Settings | Miscellaneous”.
The correct mail system setting is essential for e-mail distribution to work properly. If the computer where Untis is running already has a functioning e-mail application installed such as Outlook Express or Outlook, sending e-mails from Untis will work without any further settings having to be made as Untis will automatically activate the appropriate mail system automatically.
If you send the Untis e-mails using the transport system of such a mail application you will see these mails in the usual manner in the sent box of your mail application. Untis supports both mail interfaces MAPI (e.g. for Microsoft Outlook) and Simple MAPI (e.g. for Microsoft Outlook Express). In order for Untis to be able to use your mail application it must support one of these e-mail interfaces and must also be defined in your system settings as standard mail application (You can find this setting under Windows XP on the “Programs” tab under “Control Panel | Internet Options”).
If you have your own mail server, you can also use Untis to send e-mails.In this case you must select the SMTP setting and add the name (or IP address) of a mail server that you have access to, e.g. mail.my-school.org and a corresponding mail address (e.g. plan@my-school.org). Select SMTP as mail system and then enter mail server and sender address in the corresponding input fields. If your server requires authentication before sending you can also enter the user name and password on this tab.
Activating the “Keep a log file” option results in Untis writing a line with the most important data for each e-mail sent in a log file. On modern operating systems such as Windows XP Untis writes the log data by default to a file named “untis.mail.log” in the directory C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data \Untis. <username> is your user name in the system. Under older operating systems you will find the “untis_mail.log” file in the Untis program directory.
Tip: Opening the log file
Click on the “Log-file” heading to open the log file quickly.