Configuring Email Alert Notification Settings

If you plan to use Fortify Software Security Center to send email alert notifications to your teams, do the following:

  1. Create an SMTP email account for Fortify Software Security Center to use.
  2. Configure the email settings as described in this topic.

Note: For information about how to enable or disable the receipt of email alerts, see Enabling and Disabling Receipt of Email Alerts.

To configure the settings used for sending email alert notifications, do the following.

Important! If you want to enable team members who do not have an account to request access to Fortify Software Security Center, you must enable and configure the email service settings.

  1. Log in to Fortify Software Security Center as an administrator, and then, on the OpenText header, select Administration.

  2. In the left pane, select Configuration, and then select Email.

  3. On the Email page, configure the email service attribute settings described in the following table.

    Field

    Description

    Enable email

    Select this check box to enable Fortify Software Security Center to send email messages of all types and to add the "Can't access or need an account?" link to the login dialog box.

    This check box is cleared by default.

    From email address

    Type the email address that Fortify Software Security Center uses to identify emails sent from Fortify Software Security Center.

    For example, fortifyserver@example.com.

    Default encoding of the email content

    Type the encoding method to be used for the email content.

    The default value is UTF-8.

    SMTP server

    Type the fully-qualified domain name for the SMTP server.

    For example, mail.example.com.

    SMTP server port

    Type the port number for the SMTP server.

    The default value is 25.

    SMTP username

    If authentication is required on the SMTP server, type the SMTP username.

    SMTP password

    If authentication is required on the SMTP server, type the SMTP password.
    Secure email server connection Select this check box if you want to configure security for your email server connection.
    Enable SSL/TLS encryption

    If you selected the Secure email server connection check box, then, from this list, select one of the following:

    • (Optional) If the SMTP server supports it, select STARTTLS to upgrade to a TLS/SSL-encrypted SMTP connection.
    • Select SSL/TLS Encryption to enable SSL/TLS encryption when connecting to the SMTP server.
    • Select Force STARTTLS to require an upgrade to TLS/SSL-encrypted SMTP connection. If the SMTP server does not support it, the connection will fail.
    Trust the certificate provided by the SMTP server

    Select this check box to trust the certificate that the SMTP server provides by skipping certificate validation.

    Caution! For security reasons, Fortify recommends that you leave this check box cleared.

  4. Click SAVE.