Mail integration sends an email notification when a scan is completed. The email can include access links to the summary report, the full report and the results of custom queries. If a scan fails, the email gives the reason.
Open Configuration Center > Mail > Manage to see the mail configurations.
Creating New Configuration
The buttons at the top right of the table allow you to:
Export: Exports all mail configurations and respective information that is listed in this table as a CSV file.
New Configuration: Create a new mail configuration from scratch.
Click New Configuration to open the Create Mail Configuration page.
Mandatory Fields
Configuration Name: Name of the mail configuration.
Mail Server: Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or IP address of the mail server.
Mail Server Port: Port number of the mail server.
Send Email To: Receiver list of the notification email. Separate multiple addresses with ; (for example receiver1@domain.com;receiver2@domain.com).
Connection Settings
Active: Switch that indicates whether the mail configuration is active.
Connection Security: Connection type used to connect to the mail server: TLS, SSL or None.
Email Address: The sender mail address used to authenticate to the mail server.
Email Password: The password of the sender mail address.
SMTP Relay: Switch for mail servers that accept mail without SMTP authentication (for example internal or IP-trusted relay servers). When it is turned on, Email Address and Email Password are cleared and disabled, and Forestall sends emails anonymously.
Use different sender: Sets a custom sender ("From") email address. If it is empty, the authenticated email address is used. Useful when SMTP Relay is turned on.
Notification Options
The following switches are optional:
Send Summary Report: Includes the summary report access link in the notification email.
Send Full Report: Includes the full report access link in the notification email.
Send New Vulnerabilities: Sends notification when new vulnerabilities are detected compared to the previous scheduled scan.
Send Fixed Vulnerabilities: Sends notification when vulnerabilities are fixed compared to the previous scheduled scan.
Send Scheduled Reports Difference: Sends notification when scheduled scan results differ from the previous execution.
Send All Saved Queries: Includes the results of all saved queries in the notification email. When it is turned on, the selection in the Scheduled Reports table is disabled.
Scheduled Reports: Scheduled reports are the built-in or custom-created Search & Reports queries. The table is split into AD, Azure, Hybrid and Custom tabs. Select the queries to include with the checkboxes. Their results are added to the notification email.
Save: Saves the new configuration to the database.
Save and Test (Recommended): Saves the new configuration to the database and sends a confirmation e-mail to validate/verify the configuration.
After Save or Save and Test, the configuration appears in the mail configurations table.
Mail Configurations
The table lists the configured mail servers.
Column Info
Name: Name of the configuration.
Mail Server: Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or IP address of the mail server.
Full Report: Whether the full report access link is attached to the notification mail.
Quick Report: Whether the summary report access link is attached to the notification mail (Send Summary Report).
Active: Whether the mail configuration is active.
Mail To: The receiver list of the notification mail.
Operations
The three-dot button on each row offers these operations:
Edit: Edit the selected mail configuration.
Delete: Delete the selected mail configuration.
Example notification e-mail sent after the completion of the scan:
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