Configuring Expiration Notification
Spectrumâ„¢ Technology Platform can send an email notification when a
license, database, or software component is about to expire. This allows you to take
the necessary action to ensure that your business processes are not disrupted by an
expiration. Some of the components that have expiration dates include:
- LicensesNote: Email notifications are not available for transaction-based licenses. If you are approaching the maximum number of transactions for a license, a message appears in the system log in Management Console.
- Databases, such as U.S. postal databases used for CASS processing
- Certain software components, such as the engine used to validate U.S. addresses in the Universal Addressing Module
Tip: To view the items that have expiration dates, open Management
Console and go to .
This procedure describes how to specify when to send expiration notifications, and the recipients of the notification emails.
You have now specified recipients for the notifications and how far in advance of expiration to send the notification email. If you have not already done so, you must configure a mail server to use to send the emails. Notifications will not be sent until a mail server has been configured.
Note: By default the system will send expiration notifications for all items that expire
(licenses, databases, software components, and so on). You can disable expiration
notifications for specific items by going to .