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• Resolves the recipient role to a single E-mail address, which itself can be a mail list.

• Switches its database session to the role's preferred language and territory as defined by the directory service.

• Generates the message and any optional attachments using the appropriate message template.

• Sends the message via UNIX Sendmail, Oracle Office/InterOffice, or any MAPI-compliant mail application on Windows 95 or Windows NT.

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.

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. If you are using the standalone version of Oracle Workflow, you can restart the Notification Mailer manually or run a shell script that restarts the Notification Mailer if it ever exits with a failure. See: To Run a Perpetual Shell Script for the Notification Mailer. If you are using the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications, you can use the concurrent manager to restart the Notification Mailer program manually or schedule it to restart periodically.

You can install and set up the Notification Mailer to run against UNIX Sendmail, Oracle Office/InterOffice, or a MAPI-compliant mail application on Windows 95 or Windows NT. However, before doing so, you must set up a least one mail account for the Notification Mailer in one of these three mail applications. You must also define three folders or files in your mail account to use response processing.

See Also

Response Processing

Reviewing Notifications via Electronic Mail