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Generated email messages are sent using your default email method.
Note Email is sent through SMTP or directly to your default email application’s outbox as plain text.
To apply formatting or change an email message’s contents, see the
Send Mail script step.
Sending multiple email messages
You can use FileMaker Pro to send multiple email messages to one or more recipients. To specify
email addresses, subjects, and messages, you can type text, use data from each record in the
current
found set, or use calculations. A separate email is sent for each record in the found set.
To send multiple email messages:
1. Find the records you want to use for your email messages.
See Finding records.
2. Choose File menu > Send > Mail.
The Send Mail dialog box appears.
3. For Send via, choose how you want to send the email.
• To send using an email application such as Microsoft Outlook (Windows) or OS X Mail
(OS
X), accept the default, E-mail Client.
• To send using SMTP (without an email application), choose SMTP Server. In the SMTP
Options dialog box, enter user and server information (see
Entering or editing SMTP
options) and click OK. Then continue with step 4.
4. For Create, select Multiple emails (one for each record in found set).
5. Do one of the following to enter email addresses in the To, CC, and BCC boxes:
6. If you specified a field or calculation in step 5, select Collect addresses across found set
if you want to gather addresses from all the records in the current found set for each
message.
To Do this
Enter one or more
email addresses
Type the addresses. Separate each address with a semicolon or the return
character.
Specify a field that
contains one or
more email
addresses
Click and choose Specify Field Name. Then select a field and click OK.
Specify a
calculation that
generates one or
more email
addresses
Click and choose Specify Calculation. Then create a calculation and click
OK.
Windows: Enter
one or more email
addresses from
the Windows
address book
Click and choose Specify Email Addresses. Then choose the email
addresses you want.