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\label{Prefs_Notification}
\textbf{Receive an e-mail message notifying you when a LON-CAPA message is sent to you}

LON-CAPA can send new message notifications to your conventional
email accounts. You can choose the specific types of messages
which will cause notifications to be sent to the email addresses
you provide. The specific types of message
are: critical messages, standard messages or any message. The notification email
will include an excerpt of the text contained in the body of the original LON-CAPA
message.

To receive notification email do the following:

\begin{enumerate}

\item Click "Set my user Preferences" (\includegraphics[width=0.01\paperwidth]{pref}
\textbf{PREF}) on the Main Menu, or the remote control (if used).

\item At the \textbf{Change Preferences} screen, click the
  \underbar{Change Message Forwarding and Notification Addresses} link.
\item In the ``Notification E-mail Address(es)'' section, check the checkbox labeled \textbf{Add new address} 
\item Type a notification address into the text field
   labeled \textbf{Notification address}. This should be an Internet email
   address like ``user@example.com''.
\item Use the radio buttons to select which types of LON-CAPA message should
 cause a notification email to be sent to the specified address.
\item Choose whether you want any HTML tags contained in the original message body
 to be preserved in the excerpt included in the notification email.
\item Click the \fbox{Change} button.
\item Repeat this procedure to add more notification email addresses, one address at a time.

\end{enumerate}