email outcome for version 5

[RD@KHOU]

From the release notes for version 5

"- interfaces -> getmail -> settings email outcome removed because it is now handled by the notification sending system"

This is a feature that I would like to take advantage of, but I have not been able to find its location, nor is it listed in the documentation.

[Tech Support]

In PageGate version 5, as you've noted, there isn't an 'Email Outcome' setting anymore. What happens now is that whenever a message is sent out (either successful or failed) a 'SendNotifications' routine is run. It first looks for a file named 'failurenotifylist.txt' in the PageGate program folder. That file can contain a list of email address that should receive notification of the failure (one email address per line). There is also a special variable that can be used in the list called '%Sender%'. This will send the failure notification also back to the sender of the message, if the sender is a real email address (PG will tack on the @domain part if necessary).

The exact same thing can be setup for successful messages by creating a 'successnotifyllist.txt' file.

The second half of the setup is to create a template file to define what info should be sent in the failure/success notification. The files are named failure.mtp and success.mtp respectively. You can basically use the same variables as you can in regular .mtp files:

%Message%
%ErrorMessage%
%Sender%
%Recipient%
%FullName%
%Comment1%
%Comment2%
%Comment3%
%Comment4%
%Date%
%Time%
%RequestedDate%
%RequestedTime%
%MilitaryTime%
%RequestedMilitaryTime%
%TimeZone%
%ShortTimeZone%

This new setup is a lot more flexible than the old way, but the delivery of the failure/success messages is handled by the GetMail module, so that needs to be owned for this setup to work.