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Email settings

As a site administrator, you can customize email settings to allow users can to sharing visuals through email.

  1. Click the Gear icon to open the Site Administration menu and select Site Settings.
  2. Scroll down to Email Settings and check the Allow users to email visuals and extract refresh statuses option to enable sharing visuals through email and to receive job and extract refresh status messages.
  3. Enter the Email Address and Password.

    Optionally, you can also enter your Username. If you do not enter anything, your email address appears as the default value.

    These details have to belong to a valid account, and all future emails originate from this account.

  4. Enter the SMTP Host.
  5. Enter the Port.
  6. For Email protocol, select the appropriate option based on provider: SSL, TLS, or None.
  7. Optional: Enter the Default email subject prefix.
    The default prefix value is 'Cloudera Data Visualization'.
  8. Optional: Test the email functionality by clicking SEND TEST EMAIL.
    If everything is OK with the settings, you should see a success message:
  9. SAVE the updated site settings.
Start using email, as described in Email Templates.