Sophos Preferences - Messaging.

Hello Trevor,

email alerts are used for mostly unattended machines or Macs used by non-admins. The recipient is informed that "something" has occurred on the Mac. The sender is used as the mail's From: address (of course the server must accept it).

Christian 

Hello Christian,

Thank you for your reply.  I still don't know what I should type into the Sender - for example, would it be Sophos or my own email address or just my sign in name?

Trev.

When you receive an email in your inbox it comes 'from' some address.  You can use that field to specific whatever address you want the email alert to say it's from (based on what's allowed by your email server).

For example, as a test: put in your own email address into both fields (so the 'to' and 'from' fields match).

If you want to receive the alert from another address (maybe helpful when creating inbox filtering rules IF you get a lot of them - doubtful for home use) you can change it.  The field is probably of more use to IT admins of a large number of computers where they have set up different email addresses for different sets of computer (like an email address called 'frontofficemacs@mydomain.com' as opposed to 'salesmacteaminbranchoffice@mydomain.com) - basically the email's 'from' field reveals something about what or where the computer is so a security team see it immediately and know it's next to them or 100 miles away.

I hope that helps.

Thank you ruckus, I won't use it!

lordtrev.