2 3 6 POP3 Mail Configuration

LANSA Composer

2.3.6 POP3 Mail Configuration

The POP3 mail Configuration may be used to specify details of your email server and how emails are to be retrieved from that email server using the POP3 protocol.

Two standard POP3 email Activities are provided. They are MAIL_RECEIVE and MAIL_RECEIVEALL. These Activities retrieve emails from the email server. Details of the email server can be set up in this Configuration

ID

An identifier to uniquely identify this Configuration

Description

This should describe the Configuration.

Status

Active or Inactive. Configurations cannot be used in a processing sequence while they are in inactive status – supplied activities will end in error if they attempt to use a configuration that has inactive status.

POP3 Mail Server

This is the IP address of your mail server. If this value is not provided on this Configuration, it must be specified in the LANSA Integrator POP3MailService properties file.

POP3 MailServer user profile

This is the user profile to be used to connect to your mail server. If this value is not provided on this Configuration, it must be specified in the LANSA Integrator POP3MailService properties file.

POP3 MailServer password

This is the password which is used with the user profile to connect to your mail server. If this value is not provided on this Configuration, it must be specified in the LANSA Integrator POP3MailService properties file.

POP3 port

This value is optional. The default value is 110 (or 995 for a secure connection using Implicit SSL/TLS)

Use secure connection (SSL)

Specifies whether to use a secure connection to the specified POP3 mail server.  You can choose one of the following:
Explicit SSL/TLS attempts to establish a secure connection in explicit mode. This initially connects in unsecured mode (typically on port 110) then negotiates a change to a SSL/TLS connection using the STLS POP3 protocol command.
Implicit SSL/TLS requires secure control channel directly to SSL/TLS POP3 mail server using a port (usually 995) allocated specifically for such secure connections.
No will result in an unsecured connection being attempted (some servers may refuse or limit such a connection).

Public key name

This value is optional. It may be used to decrypt secure messages that have been encrypted with the recipient's public key. This value is used to access the appropriate private key store in the LANSA Integrator POP3 service properties.

Public key password

This value is optional. It is used with the Public key name as the password component.

Save mail text

Yes or No. If Yes is specified the text of the emails is to be saved to directory specified in Save directory.

Save mail attachments

Yes or No. If Yes is specified the email attachments are to be saved to directory specified in Save directory.

Save directory

This must be specified if the mail text or mail attachments are to be saved.  You can click the prompt button to browse for a folder location on the LANSA Composer server.

Remove from server after read

Yes or No. If No is specified, then the emails that are read are left on the email server. This means that a subsequent connect to the email server and read will retrieve the same emails. It is usual to remove emails from the server after they have been read and the text and attachments saved.

 

Note: A Test button can be used to test the validity of the configuration parameters. The values tested are: POP3 Mail Server, POP3 MailServer user profile, POP3 MailServer password, POP3 port, Use secure connection (SSL), Public key name, Public key password.