This step uses an SMTP server to send an email containing data from the previous step.
This tab defines the sender, contact person, and recipients of a PDI-generated email.
Option | Definition |
---|---|
Step name | The name of this step as it appears in the transformation workspace. |
Destination address | The destination for the email. This can be a single address, a comma-separated list of addresses, or an email alias for a distribution list. |
Cc | An email address, comma-separate list of email addresses, or a distribution list to send a carbon copy of the email to. |
Bcc | An email address, comma-separate 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. |
This tab contains details for your SMTP server, including authentication and encryption.
Option | Definition |
---|---|
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. |
This tab determines the text content of the email.
Option | Definition |
---|---|
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 transformation will not be included -- only the content from the Comment field will be sent in the message body. |
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. |
Subject | The email subject line. |
Comment | The email body. |
This tab contains options for file attachments.
Option | Definition |
---|---|
Dynamic filenames? | If checked, you will use the next two fields to define which streams 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). |
This tab contains options for embedded images in HTML emails.
Option | Definition |
---|---|
Filename | The name and location of the file you want to embed in the email. |
Content ID | A unique identifier for this file. PDI 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. |