Description
The Mail transform uses an SMTP server to send an email using data from the pipeline fields.
Options
Addresses
This tab defines the sender, contact person, and recipients of a Hop-generated email.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Transform name | Name of the transform. |
Destination address | The destination for the email. This can be a single address, a space-separated list of addresses , or an email alias for a distribution list |
Cc | An email address, space-separated list of email addresses, or a distribution list to send a carbon copy of the email to. |
Bcc | An email address, space-separated list of email addresses, or a distribution list to send a blind carbon copy of the email to. |
Sender name | The name of the person you want the email to be from. |
Sender Address | The email address of the person or account you want the email to be from. |
Reply to | The email address that recipients will use if they reply to the email. |
Contact | The name of the person to contact regarding the email’s contents. |
Contact phone | The phone number of the contact person defined in the previous field. |
Server
This tab contains details for your SMTP server, including authentication and encryption.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
SMTP server | URL, hostname, or IP address of your SMTP server. |
Port | Port number for your SMTP service. |
Use authentication | If checked, you will be able to enter an SMTP username and password in the next few fields. |
Authentication user | The SMTP username to use for server authentication. |
Authentication password | The password for the previously defined SMTP username. |
Use secure authentication | If checked you will be able to specify SSL or TLS encryption in the next field. |
Secure connection type | Determines whether the server will use SSL or TLS encryption protocols. |
Email Message
This tab determines the text content of the email.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Include date in message? | If checked, the date will be printed in the email body. |
Only send comment in mail body | If checked, information about the pipeline will not be included. |
Use HTML format in mail body? | If checked, this email will be in HTML format instead of plain text. |
Encoding | Character encoding for the text of an HTML email. |
Manage priority | If checked, enables the following two fields to set email priority and importance levels. |
Priority | The priority level to assign in the email metadata. |
Importance | The importance level to assign in the email metadata. |
Sensitivity | This allows to set the "Sensitivity" header information to Normal, Personal, Private, Confidential. |
Subject | The email subject line. |
Comment | The email body. See also the option "Attach content file". |
Attached Files
This tab contains options for file attachments.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Attach content file? | If checked, you will use the next two fields to define which stream fields you want to use to create dynamic content of the mail message. |
Content fieldname | The given field contains the field that points to a file that is loaded for the content. Internally this file content is put into is MimeBodyPart (using application/x-any). |
Filename fieldname | This field sets the filename within the MimeBodyPart. |
Dynamic filenames? | If checked, you will use the next two fields to define which stream fields you want to use to create dynamic filenames for your attachments. |
Filename field | The stream field you want to use for dynamic filenames of attachments. This can also be a folder name, in which case you would use the Wildcard field to determine filenames. |
Wildcard field | A regular expression that creates dynamic filenames for attachments. |
Filename/foldername | A static name and location of a file to attach. |
Include subfolders | If checked, will attach files in subfolders of the specified folder. |
Wildcard | A regular expression that identifies a file to attach. |
Zip files | If checked, multiple file attachments will be zipped into a single archive before attaching to the email. |
Is zip filename dynamic? | If checked, the name of the zip archive will be determined by a data stream. |
Zipfilename field | The data field to use for the name of the zip archive. |
Zip filename | A static name for the zip archive. |
Zip files if size greater than | Only archives file attachments if their combined size is above this number (in bytes). |
Embedded Images
This tab contains options for embedded images in HTML emails.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Filename | The name and location of the file you want to embed in the email. |
Content ID | A unique identifier for this file. Hop will generate one if you don’t specify one yourself. |
# | The order that the attachment will be processed. |
Image | The name of as added image. |
Content ID (field) | The content ID of an added image. |