Back Forward Email Account form –
Completing the Outgoing Mail tab

About Email Account data instances

Use this tab to store the configuration information the system uses to send email. The standard activity Work-.getEmailSenderInfo retrieves and uses this information.

Field

Description

Sender Information  
Account ID

Optional. Enter the username of the SMTP account from which mail will be sent. If this field is left blank, the email address entered in the From field will be used to authenticate the account.

Host (SMTP)

Identify the Internet IP address or the domain name of the Simple Mail Transport Protocol host, for example exchdev.myco.com. REQUIRED B-10381 Q-1678

Password

Optional. If required by the email server, enter the password for the email account.

From

Specify the email address associated with this email account using the format recognized by your Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) host. Typically the format is [email protected]. If your SMTP host requires authentication, include one @ character. B-17705 YOULS label change 4/17/07

Full Name

Optional. Enter text that appears as the full name of the sender. BUG-12525

Reply To

Optional. Identify an email address that recipients of email messages sent from this account can reply to. Use a working, valid email address that is reviewed by a person or is processed.

Use SSL?

Specify whether to use Secure Sockets Layer protocol to send email messages through this account. PROJ-112 BUG-2899

 Test Connectivity   

After you save the Email Account form, click to confirm that Process Commander can connect to the SMTP host identified on this tab. Clicking the button does not send an email message; it merely pings the server. Although the test doesn't use the values in the Email Address and Password fields, the test cannot succeed if those fields are blank. B-21652BUG-2894

KeyStore Instance

Signed Email ExampleOptional. If your application is to send digitally signed email message, identify a Keystore data instance. See About Keystore data instances.

For instructions on sending digitally signed email, see How to send digitally signed email. 5.5 GRP-396

Certificate Alias

Optional. Enter one or more characters that match all or part of a specific certificate within the keystore data instance. If blank, Process Commander selects the first one it finds of the correct type. VAGUEBUG-4655

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