Ok, made some progress...
I was using my ISP's email server in the DVR..
I switched to my own hosted server and started to get some emails thru.
I found that you need to enable the 'schedule' in recording type to get the motion alarm to send an email.
in main manue you have default the even and fill-in your account to trigger.
Yeah, I filled out the email section.. The DVR will not send email?
Strange thing, i woke up to a video loss email at 3:30am. I swapped a camera to another channel at about 9:30pm last night.
The email seems to be broken..
I successfully updated my firmware following the posts above.
The only thing I can not get working is the email portion...
Has anyone got the email .jpg to work on this unit?