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Working with the Email Task
The Email Task allows you to send an email within a BPMN Process. It is configured with the following properties.
Field Name | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
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 email address of the sender. If this field is not specified, the default email address specified in the |
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 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 format. |
Text | No | Content is in non-HTML format. |
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 configuration for the Email task.
Set the following properties in the
activiti.xmlconfiguration file found in the<EI_HOME>/wso2/business-process/confdirectory. The following code block provides a sample of these settings using the Gmail configuration settings.<property name="mailServerHost" value="smtp.gmail.com"/> <property name="mailServerPort" value="456"/> <property name="mailServerDefaultFrom" value="mailtask@gmail.com"/> <property name="mailServerUseSSL" value="true"/> <property name="mailServerUsername" value="mailtask@gmail.com"/> <property name="mailServerPassword" value="mailtask123"/>Copy the following jar files into the
<EI_HOME>/libdirectory and restart the server.