Attach an Email Server policy to one or more EmailInput nodes in a message flow to control the connection to an email server at run time.
You use an EmailInput node in a message flow to retrieve email from an email server. You can use an Email Server policy to control, at run time, the connection details for the email server.
To attach an Email Server policy to an EmailInput node, set the Email server property of the EmailInput node to the name of the policy, in the format {policyProjectName}:policyName. You must deploy this policy before the associated message flow is started.
Property | Property name in .policyxml file | Value |
---|---|---|
Email server name | emailServer | This mandatory property specifies the URL of the email server that contains incoming email
messages. The URL includes the protocol, host name, and port number, which is the minimum
information you need to connect to the email server. The URL must be in the format
protocol://hostname:port, where:
pop3://myemailserver.com:12345 You
can configure secure pop3/imap with any of the following
examples:
pop3s://myemailserver.com:12345 You can obtain the host name and port number from the email server or email server administrator. Value type: String |
Security identity (DSN) | securityIdentity | This mandatory property specifies the name of the security identity object that contains the
user ID and password that is used to authenticate the connection to the email server. Value type: String |