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Alex Steps Tools

Administration

Setting Up Your SMTP Server

Go to your Controller's Administration settings.
Click Email.
To successfully use an external SMTP, you must provide both a valid Site Email Address and a valid Email Address for one of your Administrator-level operators.
Enter your SMTP Server information, Port, and, if Use Authentication is needed, check that box and provide your Log In and Password. Also check Use SSL if needed.
Click Save in the upper-right corner of the window.

Activating Alexandria Data Stations (Controller)

The Alexandria Controller has the ability to Start and Stop Selected Data Stations that it manages. When you Add a new or existing Data Station, they will initially appear as Stopped in the monitor list.

Select the Data Station(s) you would like to activate from the list and choose Start Selected from the Actions menu.
You can activate more than one Data Station at a time. When Alexandria Controller is shut down and restarted, all of the individual Data Stations automatically activate. If a Data Stations fails to auto-start on launch, an “unable to start” error message will be recorded to the log.
The green-colored Running icon box located in the Status column of the managed list indicates the Data Station is active.

At this point, activated Data Stations are broadcasting—awaiting connections on their default Port ID.

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Using Gmail As Your SMTP Server

A Gmail account can be used as a portable SMTP server if your library's network does not already have one. Before you configure Alexandria to use Gmail, you will need to set your Gmail preferences to Allow Less Secure Apps.

In order for the program to make contact with your Google SMTP, it's necessary that Alexandria (the App) retrieves your sign in credentials from Google. As such you must set your Google Account settings for Access for Less Secure Apps from No to Yes. This can be done by going to Account Settings or by clicking here, then apps with account access (you may need to sign in to see these settings).

COMPanion Corp stores your credentials only for the purpose of utilizing Google's SMTP email service and it's stored using the most up-to-date security. It is not used by COMPanion for any other purpose. For more information about allowing less secure apps you may review Google's support page here .