Data Transformation Engine E-Mail Adapter Reference Guide

Chapter 3 - E-mail Commands List of Commands
E-mail Adapter Reference Guide
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Attachment (-ATT or -ATTACH)
The Attachment adapter command (-ATT or -ATTACH) processes message
attachments. When used for a data source, you can read attachments instead of
the note text. In this case,
filename must be omitted.
When used for a data target, this command changes the location of data supplied
through the map from the body of the e-mail to a file attachment with the name
specified by
filename. For example, if the map rule is the text literal Hello
World, the body of the e-mail contains “Hello World”. If you then enter -att
sample.txt for the Target > PUT > Target > Command in the output card,
the text literal
Hello World will appear in the attachment as a text file with the
name sample.txt; the body of the e-mail will be empty.
-ATTACH filename
Option Description
filename
For data targets only, supply the name of the
attachment file. For data sources, omit this option.
To generate the name portion of the attachment’s
filename using the adapter, supply a filename in
extension-only format (using a dot-three-letter name
such as .
ext).
Multiple Attachments
The -ATTACH command only supports a single attachment. If you are using
Internet mail (
-PROTO INET) and multiple attachments need to be sent or
received, you can accomplish this by chaining the MIME adapter with the e-mail
adapter, and using the
-RAW option of the e-mail adapter to map the MIME header
fields.
An example of a map that sends and receives multiple attachments is provided in
the map source file emailatt.mms in the examples\adapters\mime directory.
Click Start > Programs > Mercator version number > Design Studio >
Examples and navigate to Resource Adapters > MIME to consult the
readme.txt file in this directory for more information on this example.