An Introduction to Email Notifications

It’s important to cover email notifications in some detail because they are the most commonly used type of notification on FME Server.

“Email” is actually a protocol used by Publication and Subscription components. Email Publications receive incoming email from Publishers and Email Subscriptions send outgoing email to Subscribers.

Email Protocols

FME Server can make use of email messages as both an incoming and outgoing notification protocol. There are two email-related protocols available in FME Server: SMTP and IMAP.

The SMTP protocol is the ability to directly send or receive an email through an email server built into FME Server.

The IMAP protocol is an indirect process that connects to an email account on a server elsewhere. When that account receives an email the IMAP protocol passes it on to FME Server.