Efficy Overflow Q&A - Recent questions tagged sendexternalmail

Knowing if Efficy.sendExternalMail failed

Tue, 14 May 2019 21:37:25 +0000

Hello,

For one of our customer we tried want to implement a complex flow were in the end, people get mails. We will use the function Efficy.sendExternalMail for that.

The customer asked me a really good question. How can we know that the mail was actually send ?

I tried this in a scheduler :

Efficy.sendExternalMail('lbe[at]efficy.com', 'lbe[at]efficy.com', '', 'hello ?', 'test test test');

Efficy.sendExternalMail('lbe[at]efficy.com', 'superman[at]efficy.com', '', 'hello ?', 'test test test');

Efficy.sendExternalMail('lbe[at]efficy.com', 'efficy[at]ab78cdefghijkl4mnokqrst.com', '', 'hello ?', 'test test test');

Efficy.sendExternalMail('superman[at]efficy.com', 'efficy[at]ab78cdefghijkl4mnokqrst.com', '', 'hello ?', 'test test test');

The first one is a real address, sending to a real address
The second one is a real address, sending a to a fake adresse ( I think ), but the domain exist
The third one is a real address, sending to a fake address, except the domain does not exist (I am pretty sure. I didn't check :) )
The fourth one is a fake address, sending to a fake address, and the domain does not exist

Here's what I can find in SYS_MAIL after the scheduler :

After the mail dispatcher did his job, here is what I got in my mailbox (Emails are not allowed) :

First mail was obviously a sucess
I got a response from the @efficy smtp for the second address
Still no news from the second
And the fourth, I don't expected much, but I got nothing

In sys_mails : the table is empty.

If theses mails had been sent by, my Outlook, I would have received an error for the third one.

The demand of the customer is simple. He want to be warn when an email was not successfully sent.

How can I respond to that ?

Regards,

Loïc

multiple mail template using a document template

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:01:13 +0000

Hi!

I want to add a button on Project which have to send mail to all contacts linked to the project.
I know how to create the button but the mail will use a Mail Template to generate the mail body, and each mail have to contain an attachment, this attachment come from a Document Template.

I think my script have to :

Get the ntCont detail dataset of the Project and loop on it
For each Contact
2.1 merge the Word/PDF Template
2.2 merge the Mail Template
2.3 Link the both
2.4 Send the mail with "SendExternalMail" ?

I have some questions :
Can I send all the mail with only one call ? (after the loop ?)

Questions for the Word/PDF Template :
The function will be call on the Project consult view.
My function will get the Contacts detail dataset and launch the Template for each of them. In this template I use these macro :

[$=COMP.NAME] --> need the Main Company NAME of the Contact
[$=CONT.NAME] --> need the current Contact name
[$=OPPO.NAME] --> need the Main Opportunity name of the project

How can I get all of these data ? If I call MergeTemplate with the Contact Edit Context, I think CONT.NAME and COMP.NAME will be good, but I don't think the OPPO.NAME will be the good one : Efficy will take the main oppo of the contact, and not of the project.
I think I can get this name before and pass it as argument it to the template (param of MergeTemplate), how to use it in the template ?

SendExternalMail don't specify how to join a file, have I just to link the mail to the ntFile ?

BCC in SendExternalMail possible???

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:57:20 +0000

SendExternalMail(SendFrom, SendTo, SendCc, Subject, Body: string; [Entity: TEntityHandle = ntNone]; [IDLinked: double = 0], SendCode: string)

There is no BCC option here, is it possible to send a mail from Efficy in BCC.
Client wants to use The Mailings to send mails to committees (from publications) and certain persons need to be put in BCC or CC

How having an attachement into a SendExternalMail function ?

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:33:42 +0000

I must create an attachement from a crystalReport joint into an external mail generated into a serverScript called into a guest page.

Any idea to send an email with a generated pdf via serverScript ?