chemailuser

Use the chemailuser command to modify the settings that are defined for an email recipient.

Syntax

Parameters

-address user_address

(Optional) Specifies the email address of the person receiving the email or inventory notifications, or both. The user_address value must be unique.

-usertype support | local

(Optional) Specifies the type of user, either local or support, based on the following definitions:

support: Address of the support organization that provides vendor support.
local: All other addresses.

-error on | off

(Optional) Specifies whether the recipient receives error-type event notifications. Set to on, error-type event notifications are sent to the email recipient. Set to off, error-type event notifications are not sent to the recipient.

-warning on | off

(Optional) Specifies whether the recipient receives warning-type event notifications. Set to on, warning-type event notifications are sent to the email recipient. Set to off, warning-type event notifications are not sent to the recipient.

-info on | off

(Optional) Specifies whether the recipient receives informational event notifications. Set to on, informational event notifications are sent to the email recipient. Set to off, informational event notifications are not sent to the recipient.

-name user_name

(Optional) Specifies the user name of the new email event notification recipient. The user_name value must be unique, must not contain spaces, and must not contain all numbers. The name emailusern, where n is a number, is reserved and cannot be specified as one of your user names.

-inventory on | off

(Optional) Specifies whether this recipient receives inventory email notifications.

user_name | user_id

(Required) Specifies the email recipient for whom you are modifying settings.

Description

This command modifies the settings that are established for an email recipient. Standard rules regarding names apply; therefore, it is not possible to change a name to emailusern, where n is a number.

Note: Before the usertype parameter can be set to support, the -warning and -info flags must be set to off.

Remember: When considering e-mail addresses:

Alphanumeric characters and additionally underscore (_), at symbol (@), and dot (.) characters are permitted.
There must be exactly one @ character in the string, and the @ characters must not start or end the string.
A plus (+) character is permitted before the @ character.

An invocation example

The following example modifies email settings for email recipient manager2008:

chemailuser -usertype local manager2008

The resulting output:

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An invocation example

The following example modifies email settings:

chemailuser -address fred@gmail.com -name Fred

The resulting output:

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