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Processing
While an email is always sent by this task (or at least attempted to be sent), the contents of the
file and presence of attachments depends on the selected option. Refer to the property
descriptions below to know what each option does.
Once the contents of the file and attachments are determined, the email (including attachments)
is either sent directly to the selected SMTP server, or is deposited in the "Outbox" folder of the
local Microsoft Outlook account.
Task properties
Recipients Tab
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To: Enter the email address(es) of the recipient(s). Remember this is a variable property
box and you can therefore use various schemes to use email addresses that change with
each job at run-time. You can use any combination of text, variables and data selections;
see "Variable task properties" on page240.
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Cc: Specify addresses to which a copy of the generated emails are to be sent.
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Bcc: Specify discreet addresses (other recipients will not be able to see these addresses)
to which a copy of the generated emails are to be sent.
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Subject: Enter the subject of the emails generated by PReS Image for this task. Note that
if you use a data selection in this box, you must be sure that the data that will be selected
at run-time will not contain any parentheses, as this would cause the task to fail. If you
suspect that the data may contain parentheses, you should use a Run Script action task
(see "Run Script" on page397) with a Strip() function to strip them out.
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Message: Enter the content of the email message. This is a variable property box, so the
text may be personalized using variables and data selections. Note that since this is a
variable property box, its content is parsed at run-time. If HTML code is entered or pasted
in this box, percent (%) and backslash (/) HTML characters must be doubled otherwise
they will be disregarded.
Note
Different email clients have different support for various features, especially with HTML
emails. In most cases, if you want to send your email as an HTML message, your very
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