Specifications
Refer to Email message schema on page 319 for details on the format of the generated metadata.
Mail send
Mail send is a processor (although conceptually it is a consumer) that sends an email message
to an SMTP email relay server for each incoming job.
Some properties for this tool (such as the SMTP server details) are setup as a global user preference
since these values are always the same for all outgoing email. Mail send will fail as long as these
preferences have not been set with appropriate values for your environment.
Keywords
Keywords can be used with the search function above the elements pane.
The keywords for the Mail send element are:
• Internet
• web
• email
• e-mail
• SMTP
• network
• communication
• transfer
• output
Connections
Mail send supports optional outgoing connections to provide in-flow feedback about the operation
and to keep the job around without extra copying. This allows multiple send operations to be
chained in an intelligent manner; for example:
• Successively mail and FTP the same job.
• Provide a fallback operation when a mail operation fails.
Mail send supports traffic-light connections of the following types (other types are not allowed):
• Data error: carries the incoming job if the operation fails at the first attempt; if there are no
data error connections the tool keeps retrying the operation as specified in the user
preferences.
• Data success: carries the incoming job after the operation succeeds; if there are no data
success connections the output is simply suppressed (without logging a warning or error).
• Log success: carries a small log file in XML format after the operation succeeds; if there are
no log success connections the output is simply suppressed. The log file contains relevant
information about the operation such as destination, time sent, transfer time, list of files,
etc. See Processing results schema on page 320.
• Data with log success: carries both the job and the log file (as metadata), allowing access to
the results of the operation through variables or scripting.
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