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The Notification Mailer is a program that performs E-mail send and response processing for the Oracle Workflow Notification System. It polls the database for messages that have to be sent, and performs the following action for each message:
Once you set up the Notification Mailer to run, it continually polls the database for messages to send and checks its response mail account for responses to process. You do not have to do anything else unless you have a need to shut it down and restart it again with different parameters.
Note: The Notification Mailer runs against Oracle Office/InterOffice or UNIX Sendmail depending on the version of the Notification Mailer concurrent program you install for your site.
Attention: The Notification Mailer will shut itself down if a database failure is encountered or if the PL/SQL package state for the session is invalid due to dropping or replacing of package definitions. You can use the concurrent manager to restart the Notification Mailer program manually or schedule it to restart periodically in case it ever exits with a failure.
You can install and set up the Notification Mailer to run against UNIX Sendmail or Oracle Office/InterOffice. However, before doing so, you must set up a least one mail account for the Notification Mailer in one of these two mail applications. You must also define three folders or files in your mail account to use response processing.
Note: Your system administrator needs to add this concurrent program to a request security group for the responsibility that you want to run this program from. See: Overview of Concurrent Programs and Requests
WFMAIL apps/pwd 0 Y FILE config_file
Replace apps/pwd with username and password to the APPS schema, replace config_file with the file specification of the configuration file that contains the parameters you want to run with the Notification Mailer.
A file specification is specified as:
@<application_short_name>:[<dir>/.../]file.ext
or
<native path>
CONNECT | (Required) The information to connect to the database account where the Oracle Workflow server is installed, using the format, username/password@connect_string (or alias). |
ACCOUNT | (Required) The information to connect to the mail account that the program uses to send notification messages.For Oracle Office/InterOffice, the account information would an Oracle Office/InterOffice database account of the format, username/password@connect_string (or alias). For Sendmail, the account information would be the full path of the outgoing mail spool account file, which also corresponds to the account from which you start the Notification Mailer. |
Attention: If you want to start the Sendmail version of the Notification Mailer concurrent program, then the Account parameter must be set to the account from which you start the Concurrent Manager.
Attention: If you set SUMMARYONLY=Y, then the Notification Mailer will shut itself down after it polls the database and deliveries any appropriate notification summaries. You must therefore schedule the Notification Mailer to run at the frequency you want notification summaries to be delivered. This involves scheduling the Notification Mailer concurrent program in the Submit Request form.
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