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This article is specific to FME Server 2014. For the latest version of this content please visit: Sending email, Part 2: Sending an email using the FMEServerNotifier

This tutorial is part of the series Email in FME Server: A Tutorial Series (2014)

Previous section: Sending email, Part 1
Next section: Sending email, Part 3

Prerequisites

• FME Server 2014 or 2013 installed
• Access to an SMTP server (a Gmail account works)
• Part 1 of this tutorial completed

Instructions

Creating the workspace

In order to send an email from a workspace, you must generate the JSON for the email notification, and then notify the Server.

1. Add a Creator to start your process
2. Use the FMEServerEmailGenerator to set up the JSON for the notification. The FMEServerEmailGenerator is a transformer from the FME Store, which generates JSON appropriate for sending emails via FME Server’s notification service.
3. Add an FMEServerNotifier, using text_line_data as its content

Note: If you wish to add/remove the log file attachment from the Data Download and Job Submitter result, see the Key Property ATTACH_TRANSFORMATION_LOG in this documentation.

Publishing and running the workspace

1. Publish the workspace to FME Server, selecting the Job Submitter service.
2. Run the workspace on FME Server. If the workspace was successful, you should receive an email shortly.

Troubleshooting

If you don’t receive an email, you can do the following to troubleshoot:

FME Server 2014 and later: Enable monitoring on the SEND_EMAIL topic in the FME Server web interface. This will show you what content is being received on the topic

FME Server 2013 and earlier: Subscribe a logger to the SEND_EMAIL topic.
If JSON content is being received in the topic, your SMTP settings are probably incorrect. Review them, and try again.

Conclusion

In this part of the tutorial, we’ve sent an email using FME Server and an SMTP server. This can easily be expanded to send an email containing a list of attributes, a count of features, or a file location.

In the next part, we will see how to send an email after a workspace completes. The email can be different depending on whether the workspace succeeded or failed.

Next section: Sending email, Part 3