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Email is the most popular method of receiving notifications from xi. The video below steps through setting up xi to use an SMTP to server to so that it is able to send notifications. It also covers setting up inbound email. Inbound emails are useful to perform basic management in response to a notification, but it is not necessary to set this up to receive notifications.
Setting up outbound email and details about management though inbound email are also covered in these documents: