Sending Email

[rushabh_shah]

I have a workflow scheduled which runs and picks an excel file from a location but the attachment that goes to the client goes as a ".dat" file. Any reason or solution?

Regards,

Rushabh

[SophiaF]

@rushabh_shah - what does the configuration of the Email tool look like? Any screenshots would be useful.

[VJ_dup_337]

Hi @SophiaF,

I am facing the same issue. PFB the Screenshot of Email configuration.

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[SophiaF]

@VJ_dup_337 - thanks for the screenshot. what is the .dat file named that the user receives? Is the recipient using Outlook?

[VJ_dup_337]

User are receiving attachment with Movies.dat name.

Yes, users are on both outlook & gmail.

[SophiaF]

@VJ_dup_337 - my replication efforts have been unfortunately unsuccessful; as this is most likely specific to your setup/email settings, I would suggest sending in an email to support@alteryx.com so we can troubleshoot offline

[SophiaF]

One additional thing you could try is to use the Prepare Attachment macro on the gallery and see if you get better results

[VJ_dup_337 · Accepted solution]

@SophiaF

Got the solution.

If we remove the blank spaces for the attachment name then we will be able sent file successfully. 

Eg: File_Name_Date.xlsx instead  File Name Data.xlsx

[NIK7GUPT]

Hi All,

i am facing problem to send the mail via alteryx.

i have tried with 2 different way but unable to do that. Below is the step i followed.

(with Alteryx Trial version )

please refer attachment 3 and 4 for the configuration setup of mail component and error description.

Note: Here i have tried with  unchecked the  auto detect smtp option  and give the address as smtp.gmail.com but  also getting the below error:

 Error:Unable to create a socket after looping through all network address for smtp.gmail.com:25.

(With Alteryx licensed version)

please refer attachment 1 & 2 FOR the configuration.

can anyone help me into this.

any help or suggestion will be much appreciated. 

[NikhilVedula]

Hi all,

I have a question which i am unable to crack, please help me with the answer if any

In the Event tab we have sent email option there we can see N number of variable defined 

like follows

"Alteryx": %AppName%

Full Directory Location: %Module%

User: %User%
Computer Name: %ComputerName%
Working Directory : %WorkingDir%
Error Count: %NumErrors%
Conversion Errors Count : %NumConvErrors%
Warning Count : %Warnings%

Full Log: %OutputLog%

Where these variables are defined , and can i change them dynamically as per the environments.

Reply and Answer for this would be really helpful and Appreciated.