Activities
Connect to Mailbox
This activity connects to the specified Mailbox.
Activity Parameters
The Connect to Mailbox activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:
Parameters:
- Host (text box editor type): the mailbox host IP.
- Password (password box editor type): the mailbox username's password.
- Password Binding (text box editor type): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encripted password from outside the task, for example Flowster User Portal).
- Port (text box editor type): the mailbox port number.
- Username (text box editor type): the username for mailbox authentication. If left empty, windows session credentials are used.
The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:
- Connection: outputs a Mailbox connection. The Output of this activity should be used as Input for all Connection parameters used for all activities placed under Email category..
As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables. Below is an example of predefined arguments, ready to be used by the Connect to Mailbox activity:
Disconnect from Mailbox
This activity disconnects the specified Mailbox.
Activity Parameters
The Disconnect from Mailbox activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:
Parameters:
- Connection (text box editor type): the output from the Connect to Mailbox activity.
Get Emails
This activity gets all the emails by the specified filters.
Activity Parameters
The Get Emails activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:
Parameters:
- CC Contains (text box editor type): filter by the email CC addresses.
- From Contains (text box editor type): filter by the email From addresses.
- To Contains (text box editor type): filter by the email To addresses.
- Subject Contains (text box editor type): filter by the email Subject.
- Text Contains (text box editor type): filter by the email Text.
- Start Date (calendar control): filter by the email Start date.
- End Date (calendar control): filter by the email End date.
- Has Attachments (combo box control): whether the email has attachments or not.
- Location (text box editor type): the Mailbox folder where the emails will be searched for.
- Mark as Read (combo box control): whether to mark the retrieved emails as Read or not after being processed.
- State (combo box control): the state of the retrieved email.
The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:
- Output: outputs a collection of mails and their properties.To use the elements of the collection, use Get Element From Collection activity.
- Output Rows Count: outputs the number of unread mails found on the specified Mailbox.
As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables. Below is an example of predefined arguments, ready to be used by the Get Emails activity:
Send Email
This activity sends an email according to certain specifications.
Activity Parameters
The Send Email activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:
Parameters:
- Bcc (text box editor type): comma separated email addresses.
- Cc (text box editor type): comma separated email addresses.
- From (text box editor type): the "From" Email Address
- To (text box editor type): the "To" email address
- Host (text box editor type): the mailbox host IP.
- Password (password box editor type): the password of the provided username.
- Password Binding (text box editor type): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encripted password from outside the task, for example Flowster User Portal).
- Port (text box editor type): the mailbox port number.
- Secure (combo box control): False or True.
- Username (text box editor type): the username for mailbox authentication. If left empty, windows session credentials are used.
- Content (text box editor type): the content of the email.
- File Attachment (file browser and text box editor type): the files that will be sent with the email.
- Priority (combo box control): the priority of the message: High, Low or Normal.
- Subject (text box editor type): the email subject.
The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:
- Connection: outputs a Mailbox connection. The Output of this activity should be used as Input for all Connection parameters used for all activities placed under Email category..
As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables. Below is an example of predefined arguments, ready to be used by the Send Email activity:
