Send Mail
Sends an intranet or internet email message (with or without a file attachment) to one or more recipients. Email can be sent through an email application or via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a set of criteria for sending and receiving email).
Send Mail [Send via E-mail Client/Send via SMTP Server]; No dialog; To: “<to>”; CC: “<CC>”; BCC: “<BCC>”;
Subject: “<subject>”; Message: “<message>”; “<attachment>”]
Subject: “<subject>”; Message: “<message>”; “<attachment>”]
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Perform without dialog instructs FileMaker Pro to put the composed email message in the email application's outbox, ready to be sent. If this option is not selected, the composed message is left open in the email application so it can be reviewed. In Microsoft Outlook Express or Microsoft Entourage on the Macintosh operating system, the new message is left in the Drafts folder.
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Click Specify to display the Send Mail dialog box, where you can set options for your mail. Choose the method by which to send mail, E-Mail Client or SMTP Server. (If you choose SMTP Server, the SMTP Options dialog box appears. For information about setting SMTP options, see Entering or editing SMTP options.) Then choose to create One email using data from the current file, or create Multiple emails (one for each record in found set).
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Note If you choose SMTP Server and Multiple emails (one for each record in the found set) and FileMaker encounters an error while emailing one of the records, the remaining records will not be sent.
For each of the following options, you can enter text directly, or click 
to enter values from an address book (Windows), field, or calculation.
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(Windows) Select Specify Email Addresses to enter one or more email addresses. Separate each address with a semicolon or a carriage return character.
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Select Specify Field Name to specify a field that contains one or more email addresses.
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Select Specify Calculation to specify a calculation that generates one or more email addresses.
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If you use the Specify Field Name option to specify a value for the To, CC, or BCC entries, you can also select For each message, collect addresses across found set to specify that all the values from this field in the current found set be used (to address a message to multiple recipients).
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To stores the address(es) of the recipient(s).
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CC stores the address(es) of the carbon copy recipient(s).
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BCC stores the address(es) of the blind carbon copy recipient(s)
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Subject indicates the title for the email message.
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Message indicates the text of the email message. You can type the message as text, use a field value, create a message from a calculation, or insert text from a file.
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Select Attach File to select a file to send as an attachment to the mail message. For more information, see Creating file paths.
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FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier
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Sending mail using an email application is not supported in web publishing or in FileMaker Server scheduled scripts.
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FileMaker Server scheduled scripts support sending mail via SMTP. However, if you attach a file, that file needs to be in a folder that FileMaker Server is allowed to export to.
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To send email, you must have an internet connection. In addition, to send mail through an email application, you must have the following configurations.
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Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express installed and configured properly.
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Mac OS:
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Mac OS X Mail or Microsoft Entourage installed to send email with FileMaker Pro.
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If you select Multiple emails and For each message, collect addresses across found set, FileMaker Pro generates an email message for every record in the found set. Each message is addressed to everyone specified in the TO, CC and BCC boxes for every record in the found set.
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You can create an Adobe PDF or a Microsoft Excel file from your data to send as an attachment. For more information, see Save Records As PDF and Save Records As Excel.
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The Send Mail script step does not control the font’s appearance. Use the email client to make any changes to the font.
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Perform Find [Restore]
Send Mail [To: script examples::Field1; Subject: "This is
a test email"; Message: "Hello, world." ]
Send Mail [To: script examples::Field1; Subject: "This is
a test email"; Message: "Hello, world." ]
Send Mail [Send via SMTP Server; To: "Inventors SIG"; Subject: "New Member Greetings"; Message: "Welcome to our group."]