Control Center - Delivering Licenses via E-mail
Protection! Control Center includes ability to deliver licenses to the customers by sending license files via e-mail. To deliver licenses via e-mail use the following procedure:
- Select the License Shortcut
on the Control Center’s Shortcuts Side Bar.
- Specify desired license attributes.
- E-mail delivery can be initiated either by selecting File|Deliver License|Send by E-mail menu item on the menu bar or by selecting the drop-down Icon on the toolbar and choosing the “Send by Email”
option. A Ctrl+F key combination can also be used to send license by E-mail.
The E-mail Message Dialog will be pre-populated from the previously defined E-mail template and newly generated license for the product would be attached. The Developer/Publisher can adjust/modify any of the email parameters (To; CC; BCC; Subject; E-mail body; specify E-mail priority; add/delete additional attachments) and click the “Send” button to send license via E-mail.
Note: Required E-mail configuration has to be completed in order to send a license via E-mail from the Protection! Control Center.
It is possible to employ customer information to compose an e-mail message. The "Options | E-mail Delivery | Require Customer" menu option specifies that customer information should be entered in order to deliver the license by e-mail if this option is checked.
It is possible to employ customer information to compose e-mail message. The Options | E-mail Delivery | Require Customer option specifies that customer information should be entered in order to deliver license by e-mail if such option is checked.
E-mail Options Dialog
The E-Mail Options Dialog has the following product attributes:
The “Enable E-mail Sending” checkbox allows specifying whether license distribution via e-mail would be allowed.
The “Server (SMTP)” section allows specifying server attributes:
- Host: the address of your SMTP server to which all outgoing e-mail messages from the account will be sent.
- Port: specifies SMTP port
The Authentication section allows specifying authentication properties:
- User Authentication: specifies whether SMTP authentication should be used. SMTP authentication is optional. SMTP authentication involves a username and a password being transferred from the client to the server
- User: specifies valid SMTP user
- Password: specifies valid SMTP user password
The Addresses section allows specifying default addresses should be used during e-mail sending:
- From: specifies e-mail address that has been assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider or your organization’s e-mail administrator.
- Reply To: specifies the e-mail address to which replies must be sent (is usually the same as the originator's e-mail address [From]).
- CC (Carbon Copy): specifies the e-mail address of the recipient whom you want to “listen-in” on the message you are sending to the primary recipient
- BCC (Blind Carbon Copy): specifies the e-mail address to which the message would be delivered without letting the primary recipient know.
E-mail Message Dialog
This dialog allows composing an e-mail message to be sent.
It has the following attributes:
- To: specifies the e-mail address of the primary recipient(s) of the message
- CC: Will be automatically pre-populated if specified in E-mail Options. CC (Carbon Copy) specifies the e-mail address of the recipient whom you want to “listen-in” on the message you are sending to the primary recipient
- BCC: Will be automatically pre-populated if specified in E-mail Options. BCC (Blind Carbon Copy): specifies the e-mail address to which the message would be delivered without letting the primary recipient know.
- Attachments: will have the generated license file attached. Additional attachments could be added/removed via a right-click context menu.
- Subject: specifies the subject of the message. Will be automatically pre-populated if specified in E-mail Template.
- Body: specifies the Body of the message. Will be automatically pre-populated if specified in E-mail Template.
- Priority: specifies the Priority of the outgoing message. The Priority is only meaningful to you and your recipients - it does not affect the way mail transport systems handle the message. New messages are created with a Normal priority by default. To change the Priority of the current message, you can use the Priority drop-down box.