Subscriber Channel E-Mail

The Subscriber channel of the Manual Task Service Driver is designed to send e-mail messages. To accomplish this, the driver supports a custom XML element named <mail>. Policies on the Subscriber channel construct a <mail> element in response to some eDirectory event (such as the creation of a user). An example <mail> element appears below:

<mail src-dn="\PERIN-TAO\novell\Provo\Joe"> 
  <to>JStanley@novell.com</to> 
  <cc>carol@novell.com</cc> 
  <reply-to>HR@novell.com</reply-to> 
  <subject>Room Assignment Needed for: Joe the Intern</subject> 
  <message mime-type="text/html"> 
    <stylesheet>process_template.xsl</stylesheet> 
    <template>html_msg_template.xml</template> 
    <replacement-data> 
      <item name="manager">JStanley</item> 
      <item name="given-name">Joe</item> 
      <item name="surname">The Intern</item> 
      <url-data> 
        <item name="file">process_template.xsl</item> 
        <url-query> 
          <item name="template">form_template.xml</item> 
          <item name="responder-dn" protect="yes">\PERIN-TAO\big-org\phb</item> 
          <item name="responder-dn" protect="yes">\PERIN-TAO\big-org\carol</item> 
          <item name="subject-name">Joe The Intern</item> 
        </url-query> 
      </url-data> 
    </replacement-data> 
    <resource cid="css-1">novdocmain.css</resource> 
  </message> 
  <message mime-type="text/plain"> 
    <stylesheet>process_text_template.xsl</stylesheet> 
    <template>txt_msg_template.xml</template> 
    <replacement-data> 
      <item name="manager">JStanley</item> 
      <item name="given-name">Joe</item> 
      <item name="surname">The Intern</item> 
      <url-data> 
          <item name="file">process_template.xsl</item> 
          <url-query> 
            <item name="template">form_template.xml</item> 
            <item name="responder-dn" protect="yes">\PERIN-TAO\big-org\phb</item> 
            <item name="responder-dn" protect="yes">\PERIN-TAO\big-org\carol</item> 
            <item name="subject-name">Joe The Intern</item> 
          </url-query> 
        </url-data> 
      </replacement-data> 
    </message> 
  <attachment>HR.gif</attachment> 
</mail>

The Subscriber of the Manual Task Service Driver uses the information contained in the <mail> element to construct an SMTP e-mail message. A URL can be constructed and inserted into the e-mail message through which the e-mail recipient can respond to the e-mail message. The URL can point to the Publisher channel Web server or it can point to some other Web server.

The <mail> element and its content are described in detail in <mail> Element Reference.