Tips for handling email using Worksoft Certify

One of the key aspect of End-to-end Business Process validations is the Verify step. As part of verification steps, sometimes we have to send email notification to the concerned business users. Recently in one of our project we were supposed to send email to concerned team whenever the application server goes down. Although there is a separate MS office interface in Worksoft Certify to handle automation of MS Outlook to take care of all the basic functionalities of MS Outlook, such as sending/receiving emails, validations of email sent or received, etc. We achieved this using Certify and DOS Commands, as MS Outlook was not available on the client system. Find below the details of the solution and few other options.

Using Command Line SMTP:

Command Line SMTP is a Windows command line SMTP client, enabling quick and simple communication with a SMTP server from the command line. Command Line SMTP can be called directly from the command prompt. You can download Command Line SMTP from “www.commandlinesmtp.com”. In our solution, we created a batch file with the following commands.

Make sure that the batch file is placed in the same location as the CommandLineSMTP.exe. Based on the requirement of the Certify process call this batch file in the Certify step “execute application” from operating system object at the appropriate step. The mail will be sent successfully.

Find below few other options to send email.

Using Telnet SMTP commands:

Telnet is a protocol that allows you to connect to hosts over Internet. Using telnet client software on your computer, you can make a connection to a server.

Using POWERSHELL commands:

PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework and .NET Core.

Below are the commands: