This rollout lets a rendering job send email notifications, as network rendering does. Such notifications can be useful when you launch a lengthy render, such as an animation, and don't care to spend all your time near the system doing the rendering.
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Main toolbar >
(Render Setup) > Render Setup dialog > Common panel > Email Notifications rollout
Interface
- Enable Notifications
- When on, the renderer sends an email notification when certain events happen. Default=off.
Categories group
- Notify Progress
- Sends emails to indicate rendering progress. An email is sent every time the number of frames specified in Every Nth Frame has completed rendering. Default=off.
- Every Nth Frame The number of frames used by Notify Progress. Default=1. Tip: If you turn on Notify Progress, almost certainly you want this value to be greater than the default!
- Every Nth Frame The number of frames used by Notify Progress. Default=1.
- Notify Failures
- Sends an email notification only if something occurs to prevent the completion of a rendering. Default=on.
- Notify Completion
- Sends an email notification when a rendering job is complete. Default=off.
Email Options group
- From
- Enter the email address of the person who initiates the rendering job.
- To
- Enter the email address of the person who needs to know the rendering status.
- SMTP Server
- Enter the numeric IP address of the system you use as a mail server.