Email Accounts - IMAP, POP3, and SMTP

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Last updated: Feb 08, 2024 by Lakshmi Manda
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Overview

You can use the account type to connect Email Snaps with data sources that use IMAP, POP3, and SMTP accounts. The different account types and the supported Email Snaps are listed below:

  • IMAP - Email Reader, Email Delete, and Email Archive Snaps.

  • POP3 - Email Reader and Email Delete. 

  • SMTP - Email Sender.

Ask your email administrator which option is best for you to use. Account settings are common for all the three accounts.

Limitations

  • If using Gmail, you may need to turn on the option to allow less secure apps to access your account within Gmail. See Less secure apps & your Google Account - Google Account Help for more information.

  • Due to the anti-email-hijacking policies of webmail servers, the Email Snaps often fail to perform as expected.

  • It is a trend for webmail servers, such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and so on to enforce their security policy increasingly against all email client applications which access email accounts through email API (SMTP, IMAP), other than web browsers, if the client applications access from a geographical location far from usual locations of the web browser logins. The Email Snaps are often classified as suspicious email hijacker since the Snaps try to access the email server from AWS, a location different from usual web browser logins of users. Sometimes, users can find additional information in the emails from the mail servers or in the security page of the account. The Email Snaps function well as expected if their accounts are not from webmail servers.

Known Issues

None.

Account Settings

  • Asterisk (*): Indicates a mandatory field.

  • Suggestion icon (): Indicates a list that is dynamically populated based on the configuration.

  • Expression icon (): Indicates whether the value is an expression (if enabled) or a static value (if disabled). Learn more about Using Expressions in SnapLogic.

  • Add icon (): Indicates that you can add fields in the field set.

  • Remove icon (): Indicates that you can remove fields from the field set.

The fields available for all the account configurations are the same.

SMTP accounts cannot be validated before sending any email due to the nature of the SMTP Servers. Therefore, no Validate button is provided in SMTP accounts.

Field Name

Field Type

Description

Field Name

Field Type

Description

Label*

Default Value: None
Example: IMAP Account

String

Specify a unique label for the account.

Email ID

Default Value: None
Example: johndoe@example.com

String

Specify the email ID to use for this account.

Password

Default Value: None
Example: o8jkll0#

String

Specify the the password for the account.

Server domain*

Default Value: None
Example: imap.example.com

String

Specify the name of the server domain. 

Port*

Default Value: None
Example: 993

Integer

Specify the port number of the email server. This will vary depending on your mail provider and the Secure connection selected.

The default port for IMAP is 993.

Secure connection*

Default Value: None
Example: SSL

Dropdown list

Select how the secure connection to the email server should be initiated. Options available include:

  • STARTTLS: Connects to the standard IMAP port and then upgrades the connection to TLS (certified version is TLS 1.2).

  • SSL: If enabled on your server domain, creates a secure connection.

  • NONE: Used if a secure connection is not configured.

Attachment password

Default Value: None
Example: o8jkll0#

String

Specify the password for attachment URL.

Connection timeout

Default Value: 60000
Example: 50000

Integer

Specify the time duration in milliseconds, in the event of a connection error, after which the server will not try reconnecting. 

Read Timeout

Default Value: 60000
Example: 50000

Integer

Specify the time duration in milliseconds, in the event of a read error, after which the server will not try to read the data. 

Write Timeout

Default Value: 60000
Example: 50000

Integer

Specify the time duration in milliseconds, in the event of a write error, after which the server will not try to write the data. 

Mail properties

Use this field set to configure advanced parameters that you want to include in the request.

Mail property name

Default Value: None
Example: mail.imaps.auth.plain.disable

String

Specify the name of the mail property.

 

Mail property value

Default Value: None
Example: true

String

Specify the mail property value associated with the mail property name.

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