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This activity connects to the specified Mailbox, by using IMAP or POP3 protocols.
Activity Parameters
The Connect to Mailbox activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:
Authentication:
- Host (text box editor type) (type: string): the mailbox host IP. For example, if properly configured, the Exchange Server's IP can be used (for Exchange and IMAP4 options need to be enabled on the mail server).
- Password (password box editor type) (type: string): the mailbox username's password.
- Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encrypted password from outside the workflow, for example Flowster Portal).
- Port (text box editor type) (type: string): the mailbox port number.
- Protocol (combo box type) (type: string): the protocol which will be used for connection. The available options are IMAP and POP3.
- Use SSL (combo box type) (type string): specify whether to use SSL or not
- Username (text box editor type) (type: string): the username for mailbox authentication. If left empty, windows session credentials are used.
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Execution: the activity will create a connection to the given server, using the provided IP, Port and credentials.
POP3 connection example - by using a Gmail account and allow retrieving the desired emails each time the Get Emails activity will be executed:
- insert pop.gmail.com for the gmail's host
- insert port 995
- select POP3 for the protocol
- select Yes for SSL
- insert the username in the full mail address format, e.g. demouser@gmail.com
- insert recent: in front of the username. This command will return by default all the emails from the last 30 days (the emails will be filtered when using the Get Emails activity)
- this command is mandatory to be used, in our google account connection example, so that the mails will be retrieved when a Get Emails activity will be executed second time
- if recent: is not used, then when the activity will be executed again, no email will be found, regardless of the used filters.
- insert the password for the given user.
Disconnect from Mailbox
This activity disconnects the specified Mailbox.
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