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title: "PD-Alert™ Configuration with Various Email Services"
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updated: 2024-12-30T09:46:21Z
published: 2024-12-30T09:46:21Z
canonical: "docs.telosalliance.com/pd-alert-configuration-with-various-email-services"
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# PD-Alert™ Configuration with Various Email Services

## Introduction

The PDM 1 and PDM II's PD-Alert feature can send their email notifications to just about every email service. However, some services require specific workarounds due to non-standard security issues.

### Gmail

Gmail has a custom security API which is not directly supported by PD-Alerts. However, it does support standard username and password connections if you enable the "Allow less secure apps" option on your account.

The setting is here: [https://myaccount.google.com/u/2/lesssecureapps](https://myaccount.google.com/u/2/lesssecureapps)

For more information, see here: [https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en)

### Yahoo

Yahoo has a custom security API which is not directly supported by PD-Alerts. However, it support username and password connections if you generate an application-specific password, and use that instead of your usual account password.

For more information, see here: [https://help.smallbusiness.yahoo.net/s/article/SLN29264](https://help.smallbusiness.yahoo.net/s/article/SLN29264)

## Hotmail

Our testing shows that Hotmail works as expected with a standard username and password connection.

### Other mail servers

Although we have not specifically tested these servers, we believe PD-Alerts will be able to use them as mail servers:

- AOL
- Facebook
- Hushmail
- iCloud
- inbox.com
- mail.com
- protonmail
- Zoho