Postmark - Send an email

Use the Postmark - Send an email action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. to send an email with the Postmark platform.

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Configure the Postmark - Send an email action

  1. Add the action to the workflow and open the action configuration panel. For more information, see Add an action to the workflow.

  1. Select a Connection. If you do not have a connection, see Add a connection.
  1. Specify the From address.
  2. Specify the To address.
  3. Enter the Email Details. In the HTML body field, enter the message body in HTML format.

Postmark - Send an email action fields and settings

Section Field Description Variable types

(unlabeled)

Connection Credentials and other settings required to pass data between the workflow and the indicated service, which could be a cloud service, business application, or content store.

The Postmark connection used to send the email.

To refresh the available connections, click .

 (n/a)

 

From

The email address that the recipient sees. Postmark requires that accounts have a registered and confirmed sender signature. To include a name, use the format "Full Name <sender@domain.com>" for the address.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

 

To

The email address of the recipient(s). You can send to multiple recipients by using a comma between each address. When sending to multiple recipients, the maximum number of recipients (in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields) may not exceed 50 per message.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

Email Details

 

 

 

 

Cc

The email address of the recipient you want to send a copy of the email. Recipients in the Cc field are visible to all recipients of the email. You can send to multiple recipients by using a comma between each address. When sending to multiple recipients, the maximum number of recipients (in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields) may not exceed 50 per message.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

Bcc

The email address of the recipient you want to send a copy of the email. Recipients in the Bcc field are NOT visible to all recipients of the email. You can send to multiple recipients by using a comma between each address. When sending to multiple recipients, the maximum number of recipients (in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields) may not exceed 50 per message.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

Reply to

Replies to the message you send will be sent to this address. This address overrides the default Reply To email address set in the sender signature in Postmark.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

Subject

The text for the message's subject line.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

HTML body

The body of the message in HTML, for example:
<html><body><strong>Hello</strong> dear Postmark user.</body></html>

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
Attachments

A list of attachments containing the following details:

  • File name: the name of the file to attach
  • File: the content of the attached file. For example, if you open an image file in Notepad, the content of the file looks like code.
  • Content type: the MIME Type of the file, for example: image/jpeg

 Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
Tag A tag that allows you to categorize outgoing emails and get detailed statistics in Postmark. For example, you could tag emails dealing with password issues with Password to be able to track how many emails dealt with password issues. Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
Enable open email tracking Use this to enable tracking (Yes) on whether or not the email was opened. Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
Link tracking Use this field to track if recipients are clicking HTML links provided in the email. If None, link tracking is not enabled. If HTMLOnly, link tracking is enabled for HTML links. Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
Output Result

Variable to store the result as an object for use later in the workflow.

  • To (Text) The email address or addresses the message was sent to.
  • Submitted at (Text) The date and time the message was sent.
  • Error code (Integer) The API error code of the response. For example, a value of 0 here means there was no error.
  • Message (Text) The message relating to the error code. For example, if the error code was 0, this message is OK. If the error code was 406, this message would be:
    "You tried to send email to a recipient that has been marked as inactive. Inactive recipients have either generated a hard bounce or a spam complaint. In this case, only hard bounce recipients can be reactivated by searching for them on your server’s Activity page and clicking the “Reactivate” button".
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