Send an email

The Send an email action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. sends a customizable email to recipients that you specify. The email originates from the workflow action, and you can customize:

  • Who receives the email.
  • What the email subject/message body is.
  • What attachments the email includes.

Before you begin: 

  • Understand Variables

  • Review allowlist IP addresses used by SendGrid. The Send an email action may execute on servers running outside your data center region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue.

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Configure the send an email action

Important: 

Emails from tenants with a trial license can be sent only to email addresses of domains registered in the tenant. To see the list of registered domains in your Nintex Automation Cloud tenant, go to Settings and then select Domain management. For more information about domain management, see Domain management.

Send an email fields, buttons, and settings

Field Description

Variable types

Recipient email addresses Email addresses for recipients of the email message that the action sends. Use commas or semicolons to separate multiple email addresses. Do not select a null variable.

Text, Collection

Reply to

The email address the recipient responds to when they reply to the email address that the action sends.

If you add variables to the Reply to field, the variable values must make up a single email address or the workflow will fail.

Text, Collection

Sender display name

The From name in the email that the action sends. The sender display name is followed by the default sender. For example, if your Sender display name is "Marketing Team" and the default sender is nintex@workflowcloud.com, the From field in the email displays as: Marketing Team <nintex@workflowcloud.com>. If you do not enter a sender display name then the email only shows the default sender in the From field.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

Cc Email addresses for the Cc line on the email message that the action sends. Use commas or semicolons to separate multiple email addresses. Do not select a null variable.

Text, Collection

Bcc Email addresses for the Bcc line on the email message that the action sends. Use commas or semicolons to separate multiple email addresses. Do not select a null variable.

Text, Collection

Subject

Subject of the email message that the action sends. Do not select a null variable.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

Message body

Body of email message that the action sends.

To expand the message body window and to see more options in the toolbar, click (Expand editor).

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

File attachments

Variables representing files to attach to the email that the action sends.

File, Collection