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The Global Extension settings are used by both Extension and Code templates to be able to connect and authenticate for sending Email and SMS messages.

Adding the Global Extension

{{clatalk_global.png|ClaTalk_Global}}

Email settings dialog

{{emailglobalsettings.png|EmailGlobalSettings}}

^ Prompt ^ Description ^
| Email Server | enter the fully qualified domain name for your SMTP mail server. For example, smtp.gmail.com |
| Server port | enter the port number your mail server uses for SMTP |
| Use SSL | if your mail server requires SSL connections then check this box |
| Login User Name | enter the login name for the account |
| Login Password | enter the associated password for the account |
| Sender Email | enter the email address to use to send the email (this is also the reply-to address) |
| Message Body Encoding | If you need to support non-ascii characters select the encoding from the droplist.  if left blank the encoding is set to **us-ascii** |

[[email encodings.htm|Jump to the current list of encodings supported by the .Net Framework]]

* note: to use variables for any of these fields, place a leading exclamation mark ! before the variable name

SMS settings dialog

{{smsglobalsettings.png|SMSGlobalSettings}}

Most mobile carriers offer free Email to SMS gateways which can be used to forward email messages to mobile phones.  To be able to send SMS messages via SMTP you need to know both the recipient's mobile phone number and the recipient's mobile carrier to send them SMS via Email.

^ Prompt ^ Description ^
| SMS Server | enter the carrier SMTP server |
| Server Port | enter the SMTP port number |
| Use SSL | check this box if the server requires an SSL connection |
| Login User Name | enter the login name for the account |
| Login Password | enter the associated password for the account |
| Sender Email | enter the email address to use to send the email |

see also:

[[sendreportoutputbyemail.htm|SendReportOutputByEmail]]

[[sendemailbuttoncontrol.htm|SendEmailButtonControl]]

[[sendsmsbuttoncontrol.htm|SendSMSButtonControl]]

[[sendemailcodetemplate.htm|SendEmailCodeTemplate]]

[[sendsmscodetemplate.htm|SendSMSCodeTemplate]]

[[email and sms from hand-code.htm|Email_and_SMS_from_hand-code]]