Send Email

Sends an e-mail notification. If a policy containing this token encounters an error, Designer generates the error as the local variable error.do-send-email. For more information about local error variables, see Local Variable Selector.

Fields

ID

(Optional) Specify the User ID in the SMTP system sending the message. Supports variable expansion. For more information, see Section 3.6, Variable Selector.

Server

Specify the SMTP server name. Supports variable expansion. For more information, see Section 3.6, Variable Selector.

Message Type

Select the e-mail message type.

Password

(Optional) Specify the SMTP server account password.

IMPORTANT:You can store the SMTP server account password as a Named Password on the driver object. This allows the password to be encrypted; otherwise, you enter the password and it is stored in clear text. For more information on Named Passwords, see Securely Storing Driver Passwords with Named Passwords in the NetIQ Identity Manager Common Driver .

Strings

Specify the values containing the various e-mail addresses, subject, and message. You can enter the strings manually, or select the Edit the strings icon Edit the Strings to open the Named String Builder and specify the strings. For more information about the Named String Builder, see Section 4.9, Named String Builder.

The Send Email action supports the following string arguments:

String Name

Description

bcc

Adds the address to the list of BCC e-mail recipients; multiple instances are allowed. Can contain a comma-separated list of recipients.

cc

Adds the address to the list of CC e-mail recipients; multiple instances are allowed. Can contain a comma-separated list of recipients.

custom-smtp-header

Specifies a custom SMTP header to add to the e-mail message.

encoding

Specifies the character encoding to use for the e-mail message.

from

Specifies the address to be used as the originating e-mail address.

message

Specifies the content of the e-mail message.

reply-to

Specifies the address to be used as the e-mail message reply address.

subject

Specifies the e-mail subject.

to

Adds the address to the list of e-mail recipients; multiple instances are allowed. Can contain a comma-separated list of recipients.

Example

Send email