Customers can use the following instructions to configure their Zavio IP camera to send them motion detection email alerts using Yahoo Mail SMTP server.
IMPORTANT NOTE: According to our testing, you can only send email to another Yahoo mail account using Yahoo's free email accounts. If you want to send to a non-yahoo email address, you need to upgrade to Yahoo Plus.
To configure the SMTP mail server settings on your Zavio IP camera, please follow these instructions.
- Login to your camera using a web browser. If you do not know the IP address of your camera, please use the Intelligent IP installer software included on the CD that came with your camera
- Click on the setting button, then click advanced
- Click on SMTP, then select General. The screen should look similar to the above screenshot.
- Make sure the following settings are correct
- Set e-Mail SMTP to On
- SMTP server name: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com for Yahoo Plus mail accounts or smtp.mail.yahoo.com for free Yahoo mail accounts
- SMTP server port: 587
- Leave the SSL box UNCHECKED
- Authentication: On
- User Name is the first part of your email address. For example, if you address is yourname@yahoo.com, then just fill in yourname
- Password: fill in the password you use to login to Yahoo Mail Recipient email address is the address to sent the alert to
- Administrator email address is who you want the email to appear to be from
- Subject: type the subject of the email you want to use
- Message: fill in what you want the email to say
- Click on the Test button to test sending a message. A pop-up window should appear and give you the status of the test
- Click OK to save the settings
- Proceed to configure the Motion detection zones by clicking on the Motion Detection link on the left menu.
