The Peplink Balance has a built-in Email Notification feature that will send out email notifications when one of the following events occur:
Email notification test
A new firmware version is available
Health status changes for any WAN connection
VPN status changes
Bandwidth usage has reached 75% of the allowance
Bandwidth usage has reached 95% of the allowance
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Email Notification can work with standard SMTP server. In this example, we will use GMail for Email Notification. To configure GMail for email notification of Peplink Balance, you can follow setup guides as shown below:
Email Notification Setup
Tip: If you are using Google Apps, please enter SMTP User Name and Senderâs Email Address as [email protected]
For Recipientâs Email Address, you can send this to yourself by adding your GMail address, or send this to your IT personnel by entering his/her email address. To send email to multiple recipients, simply enter a new email address in a new line.
Test Email Notification
We recommend users to test the email notification settings and see if all settings are set correctly.
Click Test Email Notification below the setup table. You can see a table showing your settings. Click Send Test Notification to test the settings.
Wait for a few seconds, a text box showing test email was sent would be shown as below.
If you have set properly, recipient(s) should receive an email similar to the following.
After confirmation, you may now click Save button below the setup table to save all settings.
Activate Email Notification
After you have set and saved settings, click Apply Changes to activate changes.
For this to work, you need to allow less-secure apps to connect in your gmail settings. Youâll get an email from Google to that effect, and a recommendation not to allow it. I suspect Google wants Peplink firmware to use stronger auth.
Iâve been successfully using gmail for several years for this feature.
In the last 12 months (approximately), gmailâs geo-location security has increased and therefore has prevented this feature from working for my BR1 units installed on yachts that travel globally.
(Since, I use the same gmail account on all BR1 units, gmail security is intelligent enough to know I canât be in 3+ different countries at the same time ?)
In the process of troubleshooting I did the following:
I setup a new yahoo email account yesterday. So far, no 'geo location security alerts from yahoo. I consistently receive geo location security alerts from gmail.
The BR1 email notification test says itâs successful, however, depending on which âsendâ email account (gmail, yahoo) I use and which â receiveâ account (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, office365) - I get mixed results. I go to these send & receive accounts and depending on the combination, some donât show the test message sent or received.
I confirmed the gmail & yahoo security settings are dumbed down. I went into notifications and confirmed that âall reported sign in events are legitimate activityâ.
As this example, somebody have a real text when the device notify had used 75% or 95% data cell? I need that because i have to apply some rules in the email account to filter. Thanks
I have been unable to get email notification to work on my Max Transit with my google email. The setup looks straightforward and I have checked all settings many times but the test fails every time. Any changes in four years?
Though it looks interesting, I suspect that the headers would also be forwarded from the original email and SMS has limited characters before the rest of the message is truncated.
