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Email (SMTP)¶

To automatically send the created document attached to an email directly without opening an email client, PDFCreator has the action to send email over SMTP. If you save your password in the profile, PDFCreator will send the email without any user interaction.

Note

See Add SMTP Account if you need help setting up your account.

Specify Sender¶

On Behalf Of:

This allows you to send messages on behalf of another user.

If set it will be used as From in the protocol and the address from the account will be set as Sender.

Note

You will receive a login error if your email provider does not permit sending mails on behalf.

Display Name:

The display name will appear next to your email address in the sender info.

Reply To:

One or more comma-separated email addresses to which a reply to the email is to be sent.

Tip

You can use tokens throughout the “Specify Sender” section. See Tokens.

Recipients¶

You can set multiple recipients (separated by commas) as your primary recipient (To).

The same applies to a copy where each email address is visible (CC) respectively not visible (BCC) to the other addressees.

Tip

You can use tokens here. For more information, please visit the Tokens section

Edit subject and content¶

Set the subject and content of your email.

Tip

You can use tokens here. For more information, please visit the Tokens section.

Tip

If you use the share link tokens from the OneDrive or Dropbox action, it gets detected and the output of the conversion is not attached to the email, because the files can be accessed via the provided link. By doing this you can reduce the size of your emails.

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Send Test Email¶

Check your settings by sending a test email to your own email address (given above).

Note

Please keep in mind, that automated profiles can “silently” send emails!

Table of Contents
  • PDFCreator
    • Introduction
    • Installing PDFCreator
    • Using PDFCreator
    • PDFCreator Settings
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • COM Interface
    • License
    • Acknowledgements
  • PDFCreator Server
  • Internal License Server (ILS)
  • HotFolder
  • Support PDFCreator
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