Since our home servers are constantly on, and often headless, it is nice to know when certain events happen on your server without having to log in and check all the time. This is where email notifications save the day.

由于我们的家用服务器一直处于运行状态，而且经常没有头，因此很高兴知道某些事件何时在您的服务器上发生，而无需始终进行登录和检查。 这是电子邮件通知节省时间的地方。

To set up E-Mail notifications in Windows Home Server, the first thing you going to want to do is fire up the Dashboard.

要在Windows Home Server中设置电子邮件通知，您要做的第一件事就是启动仪表板。

Once the Dashboard has opened, click on the notifications button

仪表板打开后，单击通知按钮

That will open the Alert Viewer where you can click on the Set up email notification for alerts link

这将打开警报查看器，您可以在其中单击“设置警报的电子邮件通知”链接

Now click on the enable button which will bring up a screen where you can enter details for your SMTP Server. You can use any SMTP Server but I have opted to set up a dedicated E-Mail account for my home server on my personal domain, which utilizes Google Apps, so I will be using the standard GMail SMTP Server. When you are done click on the Ok button.

现在，单击启用按钮，这将打开一个屏幕，您可以在其中输入SMTP服务器的详细信息。 您可以使用任何SMTP服务器，但是我选择在使用Google Apps的个人域中为家庭服务器设置专用的电子邮件帐户，因此我将使用标准的GMail SMTP服务器。 完成后，单击确定按钮。

Type in a list of people you want to be able to receive the alerts sent by Windows Home Server and click on the Apply and send email button.

输入您希望能够接收Windows Home Server发送的警报的人员列表，然后单击“应用并发送电子邮件”按钮。

After a short period you should see a confirmation that the test E-Mail was sent successfully.

短时间后，您应该看到确认测试电子邮件已成功发送。

If I go and check my mail I will see a test email in my inbox that confirms future notifications will be sent to me.

如果我去查看邮件，我会在收件箱中看到一封测试邮件，确认以后会向我发送通知。

Microsoft has a list of popular SMTP Servers, as well as a list of which events result in a notification which can be found over .

Microsoft提供了一个受欢迎的SMTP服务器列表，以及列出了哪些事件会导致在找到通知的事件。

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