We have opted with this plugin to not rely on emails. It’s not a great mechanism for site/security management – it simply doesn’t scale.
There are a couple of options in there for emails – eg. when an admin logs in.
Most security plugins out there rely on emails sending out every time something happens on their site to illustrate that it’s working. We log to the Audit Trail instead, when it’s enabled.
The automatic black list can be found in the IP Manager and there are 2 buttons underneath the options section to display currently blocked IPs and the white list.
Perhaps in a future release we’ll offer more email-based notifications, but it’s not honestly a priority since we’re looking to create a platform that scales. Emails don’t scale.
Thanks for your feedback on this.