MDM Workflow - Email log

Hi there,
I'm playing around with the email functionality of MDM Workflow and got a question. My workflow runs fine, but my emails are not being received.
What I was looking for was a place to start the investigation : I would expect that at least some errors are written into some logfiles. Anybody knows if there are logfiles for this type of errors ?
Thx,
Dirk

Hi Dirk,
Doing setting in mds.ini is not sufficient. It is required that MDM server should talk to mail server. In order to setup this, you need to make them talk each other and this is the way it can be done.
You need to define ip address and name of the mail server in one of the windos setup file. What I have done to resolve this problem is as follows:
locate the file hosts (WINNT -> system32 -> drivers -> etc -> hosts. You need to open in notepad).
Read the instructions mentioned in the file as
This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one space.
With this entry, we are linking mail server with application.
This has resolved my problem. Thanks to my colleague Chintamani for probing into mail server further.
Secondly, it is not necessary that the notification can come only from the owner, it depends on at what stage notification is setup. Action owner can send notification as we configure the same during notification setup.

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