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SMTP Account Status Notification Handler

The SMTP Account Status Notification Handler is a notification handler that sends email messages to end users and/or administrators whenever an account status notification is generated.

Parent Component

The SMTP Account Status Notification Handler component inherits from the Account Status Notification Handler

Properties

A description of each property follows.


Basic Properties: Advanced Properties:
↓ email-address-attribute-type ↓ java-class
↓ enabled ↓ send-email-as-html
↓ message-subject ↓ send-message-without-end-user-address
↓ message-template-file
↓ recipient-address
↓ sender-address

Basic Properties

email-address-attribute-type

Description
Specifies which attribute in the user's entries may be used to obtain the email address when notifying the end user. You can specify more than one email address as separate values. In this case, the OpenDJ server sends a notification to all email addresses identified.
Default Value
If no email address attribute types are specified, then no attempt is made to send email notification messages to end users. Only those users specified in the set of additional recipient addresses are sent the notification messages.
Allowed Values
The name of an attribute type defined in the server schema.
Multi-valued
Yes
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

enabled

Description
Indicates whether the Account Status Notification Handler is enabled. Only enabled handlers are invoked whenever a related event occurs in the server.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

message-subject

Description
Specifies the subject that should be used for email messages generated by this account status notification handler. The values for this property should begin with the name of an account status notification type followed by a colon and the subject that should be used for the associated notification message. If an email message is generated for an account status notification type for which no subject is defined, then that message is given a generic subject.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
A String
Multi-valued
Yes
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

message-template-file

Description
Specifies the path to the file containing the message template to generate the email notification messages. The values for this property should begin with the name of an account status notification type followed by a colon and the path to the template file that should be used for that notification type. If an account status notification has a notification type that is not associated with a message template file, then no email message is generated for that notification.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
A String
Multi-valued
Yes
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

recipient-address

Description
Specifies an email address to which notification messages are sent, either instead of or in addition to the end user for whom the notification has been generated. This may be used to ensure that server administrators also receive a copy of any notification messages that are generated.
Default Value
If no additional recipient addresses are specified, then only the end users that are the subjects of the account status notifications receive the notification messages.
Allowed Values
A String
Multi-valued
Yes
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

sender-address

Description
Specifies the email address from which the message is sent. Note that this does not necessarily have to be a legitimate email address.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
A String
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No


Advanced Properties

java-class

Description
Specifies the fully-qualified name of the Java class that provides the SMTP Account Status Notification Handler implementation.
Default Value
org.opends.server.extensions.SMTPAccountStatusNotificationHandler
Allowed Values
A java class that implements or extends the class(es) :
org.opends.server.api.AccountStatusNotificationHandler
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
The SMTP Account Status Notification Handler must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to this setting to take effect
Advanced Property
Yes
Read-only
No

send-email-as-html

Description
Indicates whether an email notification message should be sent as HTML. If this value is true, email notification messages are marked as text/html. Otherwise outgoing email messages are assumed to be plaintext and marked as text/plain.
Default Value
false
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
Yes
Read-only
No

send-message-without-end-user-address

Description
Indicates whether an email notification message should be generated and sent to the set of notification recipients even if the user entry does not contain any values for any of the email address attributes (that is, in cases when it is not be possible to notify the end user). This is only applicable if both one or more email address attribute types and one or more additional recipient addresses are specified.
Default Value
true
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
Yes
Read-only
No