How To Get Your Server To Email You When A User Updates His Information

An illustrated tutorial on setting up an automated email notification that fires when a user updates his account details.
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Overview

As a system administrator, you might want to be notified when a user makes changes to his/her user account. In this post, we'll show you how to set up that kind of capability on JSCAPE MFT Server.

What we'd like to do

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Create a trigger that responds to an account update

Create a trigger, give it a name and select the Account Updated for the Event type.

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Just leave the Trigger Conditions blank and click Next.

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Add the Send Email trigger action

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Specify the Send Email trigger action parameters

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You may also specify what pertinent information to include in the email body. To see what information is available, click the Add Variable button.

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That's it. If you still haven't tried JSCAPE MFT Server, you may download a free, fully-functional evaluation edition here...

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