Any other option to send emails

[TheEmeraldKnight]

Hi everyone,

My company does not allow sending emails via the SMTP server as Alteryx does due to its security risks (i.e. the From field can be set to be anyone).  Is there any other way we send emails but from the users account?

Thanks,

Robert

[abacon]

@TheEmeraldKnight I don’t know a ton about the ins and outs of it but at my old job, we went away from the normal SMTP as well and used proofpoint. It was apparently more secure and was up to snuff on the controls we had in place. I don’t know how it was configured so this may not be much help, but I would look into that as an option and see if your IT folks know how to set that up.

Bacon

[KGT]

We have this restriction in our company and so the data team built an API in PowerApps with the specs I gave them for what we wanted to do. We then just call that API from Alteryx to send.

Connecting to an API, Instructions if you are not familiar:

http://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works/REST-API-In-5-Minutes-No-Coding/ba-p/8137

[TheEmeraldKnight]

Hi abacon,

I'm not in IT and haven't heard of "proofpoint".  I will ask and see how we go.

Hi KGT,

I'd have to do some hunting around to see if anyone in has the ability to write an API.  I can program in VBA so could write a script and put it in a *.vbs file that is called via the Run Command tool I guess (seems clunky though).

Thanks both 😎 👍

[apathetichell]

Sendgrid? The question you should be asking is 'how do you usually integrate with service account emails'? This is a question which your team may be able to help you with --- but the possibilities are pretty endless. Maybe a GCP App with user oauth? maybe service account keys?