Email Endpoint

An Email Endpoint allows an email account to act as a source or destination for a data transfer. You must enable either inbound or outbound email or both. This Endpoint has the following attributes:

Username 

The username for the email account that you want to receive emails from and/or send emails to.

Password 

The password for the email account that you want to receive emails from and/or send emails to.

Inbound tab 

Allows you to configure inbound email for this Endpoint. Fields on this tab are hidden until you select Enable Inbound. 

Enable Inbound

Select to allow CIC to use this Endpoint to receive email and to display fields where you configure inbound email. 

Access Mode

Select the protocol you want to use for retrieving email from your server. Each protocol requires you to specify attributes as follows.

IMAP

When you select IMAP, specify values for the following: 

Mail Server 

Port

Mail server name and port number for IMAP communications.

IMAP Folder

The email folder to receive emails from.

Encryption Mode

Choose Implicit or Explicit. 

Implicit

Activates encryption as a connection is established.

Explicit

Makes an explicit request for encryption after communication is established. 

POP3

When you select POP3, specify values for the following: 

Mail Server

Port

Mail server name and port number for POP3 communications. 

Encryption Mode

Choose Implicit or Explicit. 

Implicit

Activates encryption as a connection is established.

Explicit

Makes an explicit request for encryption after communication is established. 

Outbound tab 

Allows you to configure outbound email for this Endpoint. Fields on this tab are hidden until you select Enable Outbound (SMTP). 

Enable outbound (SMTP)

Select to allow CIC to use this Endpoint to send email and to display fields where you configure outbound email options. 

Mail Server

Port

Mail server name and port number for SMTP communications. 

Authentication Method

The method you want the Endpoint to use to authenticate to the outbound mail server. 

Choose either Plain or Login

Encryption Mode

Choose Implicit or Explicit. 

Implicit

Activates encryption as a connection is established.

Explicit

Makes an explicit request for encryption after communication is established. 

Message Details

To

CC

BCC

Reply To

Subject

Body

Use these fields to compose the email you want to send from this Endpoint.  To and Reply To are required fields. 

OpenPGP

OpenPGP protects files being transferred through encryption and signing. 

Inbound

Verify Signed Payloads

Select to ensure that when a signed payload is received, the signature matches the payload that was sent. 

When you select this check box, you are prompted to select the trading partner's signing PGP key. The PGP key named in this field is the same as the outbound encryption PGP key. If you change this value here, it is also changed for the outbound encryption PGP key. See Endpoint Security. 

Accept Encrypted Payloads

Select to accept encrypted inbound payloads. 

When you select this check box, you are prompted to select your decryption PGP key. The PGP key named in this field is the same as the outbound signing PGP key. If you change this value here, it is also changed for the outbound signing PGP key. See Endpoint Security

Outbound

Sign

Select this check box to sign messages sent from this Endpoint. 

When you select Sign, you are prompted to select your signing PGP key. The PGP key named in this field is the same as the inbound decryption PGP key. If you change this value here, it is also changed for the inbound decryption PGP key. See Endpoint Security.

Encrypt

Apply encryption to messages sent from this Endpoint. 

When you select Encrypt, you are prompted to select the trading partner's encryption certificate. The PGP key named in this field is the same as the inbound signing PGP key. If you change this value here, it is also changed for the inbound signing PGP key. See Endpoint Security.

Compress

Apply ZLIB compression to messages sent from this Endpoint. Choose this option for large files to conserve bandwidth and improve efficiency and security. 

Text Output (ASCII armor)

Encase encrypted messages in ASCII for ease of sending using standard messaging formats. 

Advanced tab

Connection

Connection Timeout

The amount of time allowed for each read operation.

Valid rage is from 0 - n seconds.

0 indicates no timeout. Default value is 150 seconds.

Retry Transfers

The number of retries permitted for failed transfers and at what frequency to retry them. 

Specify the following:

• The number of retries, where the minimum value is 0 (no retries allowed) and maximum is 5.
• A numeric value and either minutes or seconds to specify how much time should elapse between retries.