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Desktop notifications

You can configure how threat alerts and system notifications (such as successful update messages) are handled by ESET Mail Security. For example, the display time Duration and Transparency in the Windows notification area (this applies only to the systems that support notifications).

Minimum verbosity of events to display drop-down menu enables you to select the severity level of alerts and notification. The following options are available:

Diagnostic - Logs information needed to fine-tune the program and all records above.

Informative - Records informative messages, including successful update messages, plus all records above.

Warnings - Records critical errors and warning messages.

Errors - Errors such as "Error downloading file" and critical errors will be recorded.

Critical - Logs only critical errors.

The On multi-user systems, display notifications on the screen of this user field specifies which user will receive system and other notifications on systems allowing multiple users to connect at the same time. Normally, this would be a system or network administrator. This option is especially useful for terminal servers, provided that all system notifications are sent to the administrator.

Allow notifications to take screen focus - Notifications will take screen focus and be accessible by Alt+Tab.