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How to set up email alert in Sophos Anti Virus for Mac (Preferences > Messaging)

robhadi

Hello,

how does the email alert in Sophos Anti Virus Home Edition for Mac work? There are only three fields for Recipient, Outgoing Email Server and Sender.

There is no field for a port or for an authentication? What kind of email server is Sophos expecting. Does it work at all?

Thank you very much.

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    Hello robhadi,

    nc as a q&d

    jargon, :smileyhappy: ... nc (the UNIX  netcat incarnation on Mac OSX) as quick and dirty sniffer started from a terminal window, like:

    mkfifo mpipe
sudo nc -vv -l -p 25 0<mpipe|tee >(nc -vv the.smtp.here 25 1>mpipe)

    Before you'd set the server to 127.0.0.1 in Preferences, the.smtp.here is the name or address of the server you intend to use (the google server refuses the connection). Then trigger an alert.

    Anyway - I agree that this should be mentioned. A local mail server is one way (but just one) to get notifications from unattended machines - dunno much about Macs and OSX but heard that postfix comes with them.

    There are no home user licensed versions, Sophos sells to businesses only (starting at 3 users). To use the mangement features you'd need Windows and anyhow a mail server willing to forward is still required for the email alerts.

    Christian 

    :1012678
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    Hello robhadi,

    nc as a q&d

    jargon, :smileyhappy: ... nc (the UNIX  netcat incarnation on Mac OSX) as quick and dirty sniffer started from a terminal window, like:

    mkfifo mpipe
sudo nc -vv -l -p 25 0<mpipe|tee >(nc -vv the.smtp.here 25 1>mpipe)

    Before you'd set the server to 127.0.0.1 in Preferences, the.smtp.here is the name or address of the server you intend to use (the google server refuses the connection). Then trigger an alert.

    Anyway - I agree that this should be mentioned. A local mail server is one way (but just one) to get notifications from unattended machines - dunno much about Macs and OSX but heard that postfix comes with them.

    There are no home user licensed versions, Sophos sells to businesses only (starting at 3 users). To use the mangement features you'd need Windows and anyhow a mail server willing to forward is still required for the email alerts.

    Christian 

    :1012678
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