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How to manage messages in your OVHcloud Control Panel

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Find out how to add additional contact email addresses to your OVHcloud account and configure notification delivery rules

Objective

When you created your OVHcloud account, you specified a contact email address. If you want to share or delegate the management of your messages related to your customer account, you can add new contact email addresses and configure rules to manage these messages.

This guide explains how to add additional email contact addresses to your OVHcloud account and configure notification delivery rules.

Requirements


OVHcloud Control Panel Access

  • Direct link:
  • Navigation path: Click your name in the top right > My messages

Instructions

My messages

From the My messages tab, you can view all messages that have been sent to your contact email address. In the top right corner of the table, you can activate a filter to sort your messages by priority, date, and category.

My messages tab listing received messages, with the priority filter open

Contacts

From the Contacts tab, you can find the reference email address of the OVHcloud account, which cannot be removed or modified from the customer account.

Info

If you no longer have access to your main contact email address and do not have a backup email address, you will need to follow this procedure to request a change from our teams.

In addition to your default contact, you can add new contact email addresses to your OVHcloud account:

  • (1): Click on the Add a contact button, enter the email address and the contact's name, then click on Add. A validation code will then be sent to this email address.

  • (2): Click on the â‹® button to the right of the new contact to display the options:

    • Enter validation code: Allows you to enter the validation code sent to the new contact by email.
    • Resend the confirmation code: Allows you to resend an email containing a validation code to this contact.
    • Delete: Allows you to delete this contact.
Contacts tab with the Add a contact button and the options for a new contact

Delivery settings

From the Delivery settings tab, you can create rules to organise the delivery of messages to your contact email addresses.

  • (1): Click on the Create a rule button to define which contacts will receive the messages, based on the categories and priority levels you select.

  • (2): Click on the â‹® button to the right of a rule to access the options:

    • Enable / Disable: Allows you to enable or disable the rule without deleting it.
    • Edit the rule.
    • Delete the rule.
Delivery settings tab with the Create a rule button and the options for a rule

Rules are applied based on two criteria: the category and the priority of the message.

CategoryDescription
AccountCommunications related to your customer account settings, preferences, access or credentials.
BillingCommunications related to financial transactions, such as invoices, payments, renewals, refunds or billing enquiries.
Billing (invoices and documents)Communications related to billing documents, such as invoices, payments, renewals, refunds or credit notes.
IncidentNotifications about unexpected service disruptions, outages or recovery updates.
MaintenanceCommunications about scheduled or emergency maintenance, upgrades or infrastructure changes that may affect service availability.
ProductCommunications related to the services you have subscribed to, such as features, usage, status and updates.
SecurityMessages related to account or system security, such as breaches, suspicious activity, password changes, two-factor authentication or phishing alerts.
PriorityDescription
LowRecurring communications with no impact.
MediumUnusual communications that pose no risk.
HighCommunications to read as a priority, since your services may be affected.

You can create your rules one by one; they will all be applied when a message is sent to your account.

You can also create a rule that includes multiple conditions that will be applied in sequence. To do this, when configuring a rule, click on the Add condition (1) button. You can add as many conditions as needed.
By default, if a condition applies, the process stops. If you want the process to continue applying the following conditions, enable the And continue processing rules (2) button under the rule you have configured.

Rule creation form with two conditions and the option to continue processing rules

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