Email Notifications

The Email Notification Templates feature allows administrators to create, customize, and manage email notifications sent to users when actions are taken on their emails.

Template list

  • Search Bar: Allows users to find specific templates by name or subject.

  • Filters:

    • Type: Filter by notification type (e.g., security alerts, policy actions).

  • Template Columns:

    • Template Name: The name assigned to the notification template.

    • Subject: The notification email subject.

  • Template Buttons:

    • Delete: Delete the selected template.

    • Clone: Clone the selected template.

  • Pagination Controls: Users can navigate through multiple pages of templates.

Editing an Email Notification Template

Clicking on a template from the list opens the Template Details page, where users can configure email notification content.

Template Settings

  • Email Template Name: The display name of the template.

  • Subject: The notification email subject.

  • Email Sender: Specifies the sender email address, for example: noreply@mycompany.com.

    • The sender field can also include both display name and email address as follows: "Display name" <noreply@mycompany.com>.

Email Content Customization

  • HTML Tab:

    • Provides a rich text editor for formatting email content.

    • Users can insert fields, format text, add tables, and customize the layout.

    • Example content: "Your email was blocked due to a security issue."

  • Plain Text Tab:

    • Used for text-based email clients.

Info

When editing HTML content, the plain text version is automatically updated, based on the content provided.

Email Content Preview

  • Shows a sample notification email with placeholders replaced by actual data.

Scripting Language

It is also possible to additionally customize templates using the Handlebars template scripting language. For more information see: https://handlebarsjs.com/guide/

Custom Fields

The following field can be inserted into email notification templates:

Name

Description

First Name

Affected user's first name

Subject

Affected email subject

From

Affected email From: address

To

Affected email To: address

Date

Affected email date/time

Verdict

Policy verdict

Engines

Number of MetaScan™ Multiscanning engines used to scan content

Detected engines

Number of MetaScan™ Multiscanning engines that triggered the policy verdict

Action URL

Link to end-user actions wizard