Sending email from Invantive SQL can sometimes be hard. In your case, I would recommend one of the following solutions:
- List your server which originates the SMTP request as a trusted address in Exchange for relaying messages outside your local network (when allowed to configure that) and allow (transport unsecured) SMTP port 25 connections.
- Or use a secured exchange.
The first one is a system administrator task; the use of secured transport can be enforced by specifying a value for the field enableSsl in smtp@mail.
This field enableSsl has become available in July 2017 and later releases. The full list of fields is:
- bccEmail
- body
- ccEmail
- fromEmail
- fromName
- headers
- isBodyHtml
- minimumDeliveryDurationMsec
- priority
- replyToEmail
- replyToName
- smtpHostAddress
- smtpHostPortNumber
- smtpPassword
- smtpUserName
- subject
- toEmail
More Mail Fields
Please note that insert into smtp@mail has many more fields available, such as:
insert into Smtp@Mail
(headers, fromEmail, fromName, replyToEmail, replyToName, toEmail, ccEmail, bccEmail, subject, body, isBodyHtml, priority, smtpHostAddress, smtpUsername, smtpPassword)
values
( 'X-SAMPLE:Y;X-SAMPLE2:Z'
, 'someone@somewhere'
, 'Test'
, 'me@home'
, 'Test'
, 'me@home'
, ''
, ''
, 'Ubersicht Rechnungen (HTML) [s-unittest]'
, '<p>Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,</p>'
|| '<p>Um Ihnen unnötiges Nachhalten offener Rechnungen zu ersparen, informieren wir Sie mit diesem Schreiben über Ihr Konto bei ACME.</p>'
|| '<p>Wir wünschen Ihnen viel Erfolg bei Ihren Geschäften.</p>'
|| ' <p>Mit freundlichen Grüßen,</p>'
|| ' <p><b>Invantive GmbH</b></p>'
, 'true'
, -1
, 'smtp.server.address'
, 'some-user'
, 'some-password'
)
For instance, to include an attachment use the fields attachmentContents, attachmentName and attachmentMimeType. A full list of fields you get by querying either systemtablecolumns@datadictionary or pressing F4 in the query tool when the cursor is located on the smtp@mail text.
Defaults
You don't have to specify all values on your insert into smtp@mail. There are a number of options for which you can set defaults from your settings.xml connection string or through the set statement.
The available options can be using a query like select * from systemdatacontainerattributes@datadictionary or on systemproviderattributes:
smtp-minimum-deliver-duration-ms: Minimum deliver duration in milliseconds for the SMTP send plus inserted sleep when SMTP send finished earlier than the minimum.smtp-send-timeout-ms: Timeout in milliseconds after which the SMTP send times out.smtp-enable-ssl: Set whether SSL is enabled for SMTP connections.smtp-password: The default SMTP password to authenticate with.smtp-user-name: The default SMTP user name to authenticate with.smtp-host-port-number: The default SMTP host post number to use.smtp-host-address: The default SMTP host address to use.mail-priority: Priority of the mail; negative is bulk, 0 is neutral, positive is urgent.mail-body-html: Set whether the mail body is HTML.mail-reply-to-name: The default REPLY TO name.mail-reply-to-email: The default REPLY TO email address.mail-from-name: The default FROM name.mail-from-email: The default FROM email address.pre-request-delay-ms: Pre-request delay in milliseconds.invantive-use-cache: Whether to cache the results of a query.invantive-sql-shuffle-fetch-results-data-containers: Whether to shuffle results fetched from data containers.invantive-sql-forward-filters-to-data-containers: Whether to forward filters to data containers.