WebSphere Adapter for Email

Outbound processing

When the application server sends a business object to the adapter, the adapter processes the business object and generates an e-mail.

For the adapter to process outbound events successfully, its business objects must contain to address and from address information. They may also contain MIME type information, business objects, content, and subject information. To include a file as an e-mail attachment, you can specify the path in the business object to where the adapter can find the file. A single business object can result in an e-mail message containing multiple business object strings and multiple file attachments.
Note: The adapter supports synchronous outbound messages.
To process a business object request, the adapter takes the following actions:
  1. Extracts metadata information (to and from addresses, encoding and mime-type information) from the top level business object and composes an e-mail message.
  2. Processes contained business objects as follows:
    • Converts each business object into a business object string and includes it as an attachment to the e-mail. The MIME type of the attachment is defined in the top level business object. There is only one business object per attachment.
    • If there are file paths specified in the top level business object, the adapter includes the referenced files as attachments to the e-mail. Each file must be located at its specified location.
  3. Delivers the mail using the SMTP protocol to the configured mail server.

If the adapter cannot create the e-mail, it logs a failure exception.


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Last updated: Mon 30 Oct 2006 03:44:37

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