Chapter 9 PowerDynamo Mail Support

About PowerDynamo's mail support

You can use DynaScript to send, receive, and monitor e-mail from PowerDynamo. PowerDynamo includes the following predefined objects, which allow users to send mail through a SMTP mail server or receive mail through a POP3 mail server:

• the outgoing mail object
• the incoming mail object
• the recipient object
• the attachment object

There is also one Dynamo tag called MAILPIECE that can be used for sending mail from a Dynamo document.

The PowerDynamo mail objects are extremely flexible and can be made as simple or as complex as required by the application. For example, you might want to simply send and receive basic mail pieces or, you might want to create an application that filters incoming tech support questions and routes them to the appropriate tech support staff.

Requirements for using PowerDynamo mail objects

The PowerDynamo mail objects fully support the SMTP and POP3 Internet mail transfer protocols.

To use the PowerDynamo mail objects within your Dynamo scripts you must have access to an SMTP server to send mail and a POP3 server to receive mail.

Mail sent from a PowerDynamo script does not necessarily have to be read through a POP3 mail server. Other mail programs such as Lotus Notes and Exchange may be used to read mail that has been sent from a Dynamo script.

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