Send Email from Template

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

Fields

Notification DN

Specify the slash form DN of the SMTP notification configuration object. Supports variable expansion. For more information, see Section 3.6, Variable Selector.

Template DN

Specify the slash form DN of the e-mail template object. Supports variable expansion. For more information, see Section 3.6, Variable Selector.

Password

(Optional) Specify the SMTP server account password. Select the Edit the arguments icon Edit the Arguments icon to open the Argument Builder and specify the password argument.

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 additional string arguments for the e-mail 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.

Send Email from Template supports the following string arguments that you can use to specify the various e-mail addresses.

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.

reply-to

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

to

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

In addition to the reserved field names listed above, Send Email from Template supports Global Configuration Values (GCVs) for creating the desired string.

NOTE:If you want to include HTML in a string argument, you can enclose the HTML in <use-html></use-html> tags within the string.

Each template can also define fields that can be replaced in the subject and body of the e-mail message.

Example

Send email from template