Email Connector

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The Email Component adds SSL-protected email capability to the MuleSoft.

Remarks

The Email Connector provides an all-encompassing email client implementation to your Mule Project. The connector supports both send and receive functionality over multiple protocols.

Email Receive Connector

The Email Receive Connector implements the IMAP and POP3 internet mail protocols. In order to use the Email Receiver connector, you must first select a ServerType. You must also enter a MailServer and User. For servers that require authentication, you will also have to enter a Password.

To activate SSL, you must also select an SSLCert, and set the SSLAcceptServerCert and SSLStartMode. The connector will attempt to determine the correct port to connect to based on the server type and SSL settings. However, you may override the default by directly setting the MailPort in the property pages.

Once you have your port set up, the connector will connect to the server once every PollingInterval and download messages. To control how the messages are downloaded, or to prevent duplicate messages from being fetched from the mail server, you may set the DeleteMode to an appropriate value. For IMAP connections, you may also set a Filter.

The connector will write as much information as it has regarding the emails to various properties in the message context that can be polled at runtime. These include MessageFrom, MessageTo, MessageSubject and MessageHeaders. The message headers may also be included with the message body by setting the IncludeHeaders property to True.

Receive Example

Drag and drop the Email Receive Connector into the source position of a flow. All that is necessary to get started is to configure the connection settings. You can control which messages are downloaded using DeleteMode and Filter.

The connector will handle connecting to the server and downloading a group of emails. One Mule event is generated for each downloaded email. Behind the Email Receive connector additional properties about each message are available in the attributes collection.

Email Send Connector

The Email Send Connector is a complete SMTP client. To send emails from the connector you must set at a minimum your SMTPServer, as well as your From and SendTo email addresses. Should you need to guarantee a secure transmission, you may set the SSLCert and SSLStartMode properties, as well as a specific SSLAcceptServerCert.

You may also add carbon copy and blind carbon copy recipients via the Cc and BCc properties. If you wish to receive delivery or read notifications, you can set the DeliveryReceipt and ReadReceipt properties. You may set the Subject of your message. The contents of the outbound message will be sent as the body of the email.

Send Example

To get started, simply drag the Email Send Connector into your application. All that is necessary to get started is to configure the connection settings. Set the MessageHTML or MessageText property to a string value containing the message to send. That is all that is required to send an email.