Sending an Message from a Process

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1 Adobe Enterprise Technical Enablement Sending an Message from a Process In this topic, you will learn how the service can be used to send messages from a process. Objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to Send an message from a process Concepts In this topic, you will learn about the following concepts Using the service in a process Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated 1

2 Using the service in a process The service enables processes to Receive messages from a POP3 or IMAP server Send messages to an SMTP server The service offers the following operations Send With Document - Sends an message that has a single attachment Send With Map of Attachments - Sends an message that has multiple attachments Receive - Receives messages and attachments from either a POP3 or IMAP server Note: Only the Send with Document operation will be covered in this topic. Send With Document operation The Send With Document operation sends an message with a single attachment Located in Foundation > Figure 1: Locating the Send With Document operation of the service 2 Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated

3 Send With Document operation properties To and From Addresses categories Specify who to send the to (To, CC and BCC) Specify who the is sent from (From and Reply to addresses) Contents Subject Message format (Text or HTML) Message Character set encoding Attachments Attachment name - File name to use for the attachment Attachment - A document value that represents the file to attach to the message Connection Use Global Settings - Specifies whether to use the settings in the service configuration instead of the settings specified in the properties of the operation True means to use the default connection settings configured for the service and False means to use the settings configured in the properties for the operation SMTP Host - Represents the URL or IP address of the server SMTP Port Number - The port number that the server uses SMTP Authenticate - True indicates that authentication with the server is required, False indicates that no authentication is required SMTP User - A string that represents the username of the account that should be used to send the message SMTP Password - The password associated with the user account SMTP Transport Security - Represents the transport security used when communicating with the server None - no protocol is used ( is sent in clear text) Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated 3

4 SSL - the secure sockets layer protocol is used to send the TLS - transport layer security is used Figure 2: Send With Document properties 4 Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated

5 Task 1: Sending an with an attachment In this task, you will perform the following Open a process Configure a Send With Document operation Test the process Setup 1. Import the Sending_ .lca file. 2. Add sampleorganization.com to the hosts file. 3. Go to C:\james-2.3.1\bin and run start.bat. This will start the James Mail server. 4. Close James. 5. Go to C:\james-2.3.1\apps\james\SAR-INF and open config.xml with Notepad. 6. Locate the servernames node and replace localhost with sampleorganization.com. 7. Save and close the file. 8. Enable telnet on your machine. 9. Restart James Mail. 10. Open a command prompt and type telnet localhost Login with id = root and password = root. 12. Type adduser srose password. 13. Confirm the console displays "User srose added". 14. Type quit and close the command window. 15. Open Mozilla Thunderbird. 16. On the Mail Account Setup dialog, enter the following. Your name: Sarah Rose address: srose@sampleorganization.com Password: password 17. Click Continue. 18. Confirm that the SMTP and POP servers are set to sampleorganization.com. 19. Test to make sure Sarah can send and receive to her address. Steps Open a process 1. Login to the Workbench. 2. Open the Sending_ application. 3. Expand the Processes folder, right-click the Send WithAttachment process and select Check Out. Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated 5

6 4. Double-click the Send WithAttachment process to open it. Configure a Send With Document operation 5. From the process diagram palette, drag the Activity Picker activity onto your process diagram and drop it to the right of the Read PDF Document operation. 6. In the Define Activity dialog box, expand the Foundation category. 7. From the service, select the Send With Document operation and click OK. 8. Enter the Name to be Send with Attachment. 9. In the To Addresses category, change the To property to literal value and click the ellipsis button to add the value srose@sampleorganization.com. 10. In the From Addresses category, change the From property to literal value and the value Administrator@sampleorganization.com. 11. In the Contents category, set the properties as follows. Subject - sent from Send WithAttachment process Message Format - TEXT Message - Sending an with an attachment from a process 12. In the Attachments category, set the properties as follows. Attachment Name (literal value) - Mortgage Loan Application.pdf Attachment (variable) - inpdfdoc 13. In the Connection Settings category, set the properties as follows. Use Global Settings - unchecked SMTP Host (literal value) - sampleorganization.com SMTP Port Number (literal value) - 25 SMTP Authenticate - checked SMTP User (literal value) - Administrator SMTP Password (literal value) - password 14. Connect the two operations with a route. 15. Confirm that the process looks like the figure below. 16. Save the process and deploy the application. Test the process 17. Right-click in an empty area of the process diagram and select Invoke Process A dialog will appear stating that the process has no input variables. Click OK. 19. A dialog will appear stating that the invocation completed successfully. Click OK. 6 Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated

7 20. Launch the Thunderbird client and open Sarah Rose s inbox. 21. Click the Get Mail button. 22. Confirm that the message is received. Note: It make take a minute for the message to appear in the inbox. Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated 7

8 Summary The Send With Document operation sends an message that has a single attachment 8 Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated

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