The Email Task allows us you to send an email within a BPMN Process. Email Task It is configured with the following properties.
| Filed Field Name | Is mandatory propertyMandatory | Description |
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| To | Yes | The email address of the intended recipient of the email. Multiple recipients can be specified as comma-separated email addresses. |
| From | No | The sender email address of the sender. If this field is not specified, the default email address specified in the activiti.xml is file will be used. |
| Subject | No | Subject of the email. |
| CC | No | The email addresses of the carbon copy receivers of the email. Multiple recipients are separated by commas. |
| Bcc | No | The bcc's email addresses of the blind carbon copy receivers of the e-mail. Multiple recipients are separated by commas. |
| Charset | No | Charset of the email can be changed. |
| Html | No | The content of email is in html HTML format. |
| Text | No | Content is in non html -HTML format. |
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Sample Email Server Configuration
The Activiti engine sends e-mails using an external mail server. The following steps guide you through a sample email server . Following properties should be set in the configuration for the Email task.
Set the following properties in the
activiti.xml
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configuration file
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found in the
<BPS_HOME>/repository/confdirectory. The following code block provides a sample of these settings using the Gmail configuration settings.Code Block language xml <property name="mailServerHost" value="smtp.gmail.com"/>
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<property name="mailServerPort" value="
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456"/>
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<property name="mailServerDefaultFrom" value="mailtask@gmail.com"/>
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<property name="
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mailServerUseSSL" value="true"/>
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<property name="mailServerUsername" value="mailtask@gmail.com"/>
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<property name="mailServerPassword" value="mailtask123"/>
Property Description
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<property name="mailServerDefaultFrom" value=”email of the sender”>
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This specifies the default address of the sender
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. If a sender is not specified in the sender field as a mail task property, the email address specified here will be used instead. <property name="mailServerUsername" value="mailtask@gmail.com"/><property name="mailServerPassword" value="mailtask123"/>
Specifies the credentials of the sender for authentication purposes. Here, you should include the email
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addressandit'scorrespondingpasswordwhich you specified in the
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“From” field of the mail task. Port 456 (SSL required):<property name="mailServerUseSSL" value="true"/>Port 587 (TLS required):<property name="mailServerUseTLS" value="true"/>
Specifiy only one of these two properties in order to specify whether the mail server should use SSL or TLS. Copy the following jar files into the
<BPS_HOME>/repository/components/libdirectory and restart the server.
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org.apache.commons:commons-email:jar:1.3javax.mail:mail:jar:1.4.7