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The Global Extension settings are used by both Extension and Code templates to be able to connect and authenticate for sending Email and SMS messages.

Adding the Global Extension

ClaTalk_Global

Email settings dialog

EmailGlobalSettings

Prompt Description
Email Server enter the fully qualified domain name for your SMTP mail server. For example, smtp.gmail.com
Server port enter the port number your mail server uses for SMTP
Use SSL if your mail server requires SSL connections then check this box
Login User Name enter the login name for the account
Login Password enter the associated password for the account
Sender Email enter the email address to use to send the email (this is also the reply-to address)
Message Body Encoding If you need to support non-ascii characters select the encoding from the droplist.  if left blank the encoding is set to us-ascii

Jump to the current list of encodings supported by the .Net Framework

* note: to use variables for any of these fields, place a leading exclamation mark ! before the variable name

SMS settings dialog

SMSGlobalSettings

Most mobile carriers offer free Email to SMS gateways which can be used to forward email messages to mobile phones.  To be able to send SMS messages via SMTP you need to know both the recipient's mobile phone number and the recipient's mobile carrier to send them SMS via Email.

Prompt Description
SMS Server enter the carrier SMTP server
Server Port enter the SMTP port number
Use SSL check this box if the server requires an SSL connection
Login User Name enter the login name for the account
Login Password enter the associated password for the account
Sender Email enter the email address to use to send the email

see also:

SendReportOutputByEmail

SendEmailButtonControl

SendSMSButtonControl

SendEmailCodeTemplate

SendSMSCodeTemplate

Email_and_SMS_from_hand-code

globalcommunicationssettings.htm.txt · Last modified: 2021/04/15 15:57 by 127.0.0.1