General Settings

General Settings select the default mail system and configure basic e-mail options.

• Mail System

  Select the mail system to be used (SMTP, Microsoft Outlook or Windows Messaging).

• Content type

  Select format of mail message (text/plain or text/html).

• Character set

  Select the character set used in mail messages.

• Regular Expression for Email Address Validity Check

  In this field it is possible to define a customer-specific regular expression for validation of email addresses in views and in workflow activity 'Send Mail'. The setting is stored in mainparameter (PARAM="MailSystem.EmailAddress.ValidationRegex", PATH="MailSystem"). When not defined, a default expression is used. Since version 5.0 this standard expression supports internationalized domain names, in older Valuemation versions a custom expression needs to be supplied if IDN support is requested.

  The standard regular expression which supports IDN is:

  ^[\p{L}0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[\p{L}0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[\p{L}0-9](?:[\p{L}0-9-]*[\p{L}0-9])?\.)+[\p{L}0-9](?:[\p{L}0-9-]*[\p{L}0-9])?$

  Please see also the 'Validate Mail Address' option in the View Customizer.