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iCal Tutorial: Email Notification
iCal supports email notification. The email capability is an optional feature.
A couple of basic requirements to use the Email notification capabilities.
1. iCal must be run on an NT (or Windows 2000)
2. An SMTP server must be accessible for sending Email
There are several features wrapped around email notification.
| 1. | Auditing calendar activity.
This allows the administrator of a calendar to be notified
when events are added, update or deleted.
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| 2. | Users notifying people when events are added or updated.
A person that adds or updates an event to a calendar can
have this information emailed to any number of people.
(notifying people of a staff meeting)
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| 3. | Event Reminders.
You can select to be reminded of upcoming events. You
can be notified from 15 minutes to two weeks in advance. |
The Email Configuration
page is available to the calendar administrator.
A User Name and Password is required with the registered version of iCal.
The values that must be entered are the Registration
Name and Registration Number that you were assigned when ordering the
Professional version of iCal. You can find these values on the About
Tab of the iCal property page.
The Email Configuration
page is were you can enable Email for the iCal system. On this page you
will define the SMTP mail server and a few other optional values.
When the email system is enabled, the main administration screen for each calendar
will have a link to an Email Notification setup form. This will allow custom Email
configuration for each calendar. | 
