Email

The Email block is used to send emails with an SSL-enabled SMTP mail server.

Procedure

  1. Add an Assign block to the workflow and specify a variable such as $message, and an HTML-formatted text value, such as <b>This is an email</b>.

  2. Drag and drop an Email block into your workflow. Configure the email block with the following settings:

    Table 1. Email input variables
    Variable name Description Example values
    authKey The authentication key for a generic API authentication scheme, which you can extend. Admin/SMTP
    From The email address from which the message is sent which must match the address that is used in the related authKey. youremail@mail.com
    To The email address to which the message is sent.

    Use commas between email addresses when there is more than one receiver.

    somemail@mail.com, anotheremail@mail.com
    Subject The subject of the email. My email subject
    Text The content of the email. This is an email
    Html A workflow variable that contains the email text in HTML format. $message
  3. In this block, use the $result variable and set the value to $<email-block-name>.response, where <email-block-name> is the name of the email block instance, for example, Email_1.
  4. Run the workflow to send the email.

Disabling the Email block

To temporarily disable this block without deleting it, turn off the switch in the block header.