{"id":7326,"date":"2020-12-31T23:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=7326"},"modified":"2021-03-09T22:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:33:27","slug":"sending-email-from-snip","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/sending-email-from-snip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending eMail from SNIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How to send a Report or Graphic by eMail<\/h2>\n<p>An optional <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> Plug-In provides the ability to send eMails to your users or to yourself directly from the Caster.\u00a0 Any report or chart \/ graphic can be sent in this way.\u00a0 This article describes how to use this feature to send an eMail.\u00a0 See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/printing-reports-and-charts\/\">this article<\/a> on printing reports and graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Sending eMail is a convenient way to inform your users of various reports, graphs, and charts which you may wish to share with them.\u00a0 Whenever a user account (an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-client\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NTRIP Client<\/a>), client account (a person or business) , or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/reserving-pushed-mountpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PUSH_In<\/a> Base Station reservation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-server\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NTRIP Server<\/a>) is created or changed, an automatic email can be sent to the other party (as well as a CC copy to whatever account you set up).\u00a0 You can also have eMail sent to SMS addresses (cellular phones) as well.<\/p>\n<h2>Initial Setup<\/h2>\n<p>Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/setting-up-email\/\">this article<\/a> for setup instructions.\u00a0 In order to use the eMail Services you must have an active eMail Services Plug-In operating on a <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em><strong>Pro<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>model of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2>Sending an eMail<\/h2>\n<p>In the various report windows there is an eMail button that is used to send that report to another party.\u00a0 When sent, a copy of the email is also saved on your email account as well (there is a 25Gb limit for saved mails; for most users this will last multiple years).\u00a0 In addition you can easily CC the mail to the &#8220;CC address&#8221; you created during setup process with a check box.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Useful tip<\/strong><\/span>: If you are sending mail to the the CC address, you can leave the eMail entry bank and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> will insert that address for you.\u00a0 This can be very efficient when sending mail to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the eMail button next to the Print button in most dialogs.\u00a0 Below are the tool bars for the <strong>Document Viewer<\/strong>, the <strong>Navigation Filters,<\/strong> the <strong>System Logs<\/strong>,\u00a0 and the <strong>Base Station Logs <\/strong>dialogs to illustrate this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked.png 1093w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked-50x21.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked-920x391.png 920w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked-600x255.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Four_eMailButtonsMarked-320x136.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sending Mail<\/h2>\n<p>Once the eMail button has been pressed, a dialog is then presented requesting the operator to enter the recipient email address as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Provide_eMail_Dialog.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Provide_eMail_Dialog.png 440w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Provide_eMail_Dialog-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Provide_eMail_Dialog-50x27.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Provide_eMail_Dialog-320x175.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can enter the <em>name<\/em> and <em>email<\/em> in a variety of formats as you wish.\u00a0 The &#8216;name&#8217; of the recipient is optional but will be used if it is entered.\u00a0\u00a0 The eMail should be the last item on the line and must be valid itself. The following formats all represent valid email entries (although this is not a valid email).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andy Capp\u00a0 &lt;co<span class=\"aCOpRe\">ReginaldSmythe<\/span>@mirror.co.uk&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Andy &lt;co<span class=\"aCOpRe\">ReginaldSmythe<\/span>@mirror.co.uk&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Andy co<span class=\"aCOpRe\">ReginaldSmythe<\/span>@mirror.co.uk<\/li>\n<li>&lt;co<span class=\"aCOpRe\">ReginaldSmythe<\/span>@mirror.co.uk&gt;<\/li>\n<li>co<span class=\"aCOpRe\">ReginaldSmythe<\/span>@mirror.co.uk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the resulting name and eMail cannot be parsed out (are not valid), no eMail is sent and a note of this is entered into the console log.<\/p>\n<p>If the <strong>CC admin <\/strong>box is checked, a copy of the mail is also sent to the party indicated in the adjacent label.<\/p>\n<p>If the eMail is deemed to be valid, the requested report is created, placed into a suitable MIME eMail message and enqueued for transmission.\u00a0\u00a0 Unless there is a backlog (as can occur when many eMails are created in a short time with automated reports) the eMail is sent out in the next second or so.\u00a0 A note of this is then added to the console log.<\/p>\n<pre>[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">DOCS<\/span>]: An eMail with the document: <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Caster Stats, Uptime Report<\/span><\/strong>, was sent to: <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Capp &lt;coReginaldSmythe@mirror.co.uk&gt;<\/strong><\/span> [CC to Caster admin]<\/pre>\n<p>That is all there is to it.<\/p>\n<h2>Tips<\/h2>\n<p>In general, html reports and any reports containing tables will be sized to the paper size or screen size on which they are eventually viewed without any sender effort.\u00a0 Reports containing PNG images (most charts and graphics) are sized to the size of the dialog window when created.\u00a0 In other words, if you want an eMail graphic to be larger or smaller or a different display ratio, simply resize the containing window before sending.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hint:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 This sizing process can be done for Saved files (in PNG, GIF, PDF, etc.) and for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/printing-reports-and-charts\/\">Printed<\/a> reports as well as for eMail.<\/p>\n<p>The button <strong>Web Mail&#8230;<\/strong> in the eMail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/setting-up-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">setup dialog<\/a> will take you to a web interface to see all the eMail you have send and any replies send to that mail.\u00a0 It is most typical to have this mail traffic automatically forwarded to an eMail account you will regularly use.\u00a0 The web interface provides various settings to control this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to send a Report or Graphic by eMail An optional SNIP Plug-In provides the ability to send eMails to your users or to yourself directly from the Caster.\u00a0 Any report or chart \/ graphic can be sent in this way.\u00a0 This article describes how to use this feature to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[112],"ht-kb-tag":[487,484,201],"class_list":["post-7326","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-general","ht_kb_tag-email","ht_kb_tag-plug-in","ht_kb_tag-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/7326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7326"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/7326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/7326\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=7326"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=7326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}