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This page lets you define e-mail server parameters for the notification mailer. Some parameters are already set to required values and cannot be modified. You must set parameters marked with an asterisk (*) to appropriate values for your environment before you can run the notification mailer. A refresh icon identifies attributes that can be refreshed dynamically while the service component is running. If the notification mailer is currently running, then parameters marked with a refresh icon will be refreshed immediately when you select the Next button.

General

• Mailer Node Name- The node identifier name used by this notification mailer. The maximum length for a node name is eight characters. The node name cannot include any spaces or any of the following characters: left bracket ([), right bracket (]), slash (/), or at sign (@). The node name is included with the outgoing notification ID in outbound messages, and is used in inbound messages to identify the notification mailer that should process the messages. If you use the inbound and outbound thread count parameters to create notification mailers that are dedicated to either inbound or outbound processing, you should ensure that you assign the same node name to at least one outbound mailer and one inbound mailer, so that inbound mailer can process responses to messages sent by the outbound mailer. You can optionally assign the same node name to multiple outbound mailers, but you must not assign the same node name to more than one mailer that performs inbound processing. The default node name is WFMAIL.

Note: The node name for each node must be

unique. However, multiple outbound mailers and one inbound mailer can share the same node.

• Email Parser- The Java class used to parse an incoming notification response e-mail and create an XML document for the response. The standard default e-mail parser provided by Oracle Workflow is named oracle.apps.fnd.wf.mailer.TemplatedEmailParser. Usually you do not need to change this value.

If you are not implementing inbound e-mail processing for this mailer, leave the default as a placeholder value.

Note: If you set the DIRECT_RESPONSE parameter to Y, notification mailers use an alternate e-mail parser to process incoming e-mails that are formatted according to the direct response method. The alternate e-mail parser is named

oracle.apps.fnd.wf.mailer.DirectEmailParser. Note that you do not need to change the value of the Email Parser parameter in this case. A notification mailer will automatically use the alternate e-mail parser if DIRECT_RESPONSE is set to Y.

• Expunge Inbox on Close- Select this parameter to purge deleted messages from the inbox folder when the notification mailer closes this folder. If you do not select this parameter, copies of messages that were moved to the discard or processed

folders remain in the inbox, in a deleted state, until you purge them using your e-mail application.

Inbound E-mail Account

• Protocol- Oracle Workflow currently supports the IMAP protocol for inbound e-mail.

• Server- The name of the inbound mail server. Note that you must specify the actual host name for the server. Do not uselocalhostas the setting for this parameter. You can optionally specify the port number to use on that server. If you do not specify a port number, the notification mailer uses port 143 by default. Specify the server in the following format: <server_name>[:<port_number>]

For example:myimapserver.mycompany.com:143

If you are not implementing inbound e-mail processing for this mailer, enter a placeholder value.

• Username- The user name of the mail account that the notification mailer uses to receive e-mail messages.

If you are not implementing inbound e-mail processing for this mailer, enter a placeholder value.

• Password- The password for the mail account specified in the Username

parameter. The password value is masked as asterisks in the display and is stored in encrypted form.

If you are not implementing inbound e-mail processing for this mailer, enter a placeholder value.

• Inbox Folder- The name of the folder from which the notification mailer receives inbound messages. This value is case-insensitive. The default value isINBOX. The inbox must be separate from the processed and discard folders. Each notification mailer that performs inbound processing should have its own separate inbox.

Note: Usually, you use a dedicated mail account for notification mailer processing. If you want to use a mail account for the notification mailer that you also use for other purposes, you should create a folder in that account where you will place inbound messages destined for the notification mailer and specify that folder in the Inbox Folder parameter. Otherwise, the notification mailer will attempt to process all messages in the regular inbox and discard any messages that are not notification responses. If you do specify a separate folder to use as the notification mailer inbox folder, however, you must move messages from the regular inbox to that separate folder yourself. Depending on your mail program, you may be able to create a filter in the mail account to move such messages automatically. Use your e-mail client to create the separate folder. A notification mailer may not be able to access folders that were created using command line tools outside the e-mail client.

If you are not implementing inbound e-mail processing for this mailer, leave the default as a placeholder value.

Outbound E-mail Account

• Protocol- Oracle Workflow currently supports the SMTP protocol for outbound