When setting up Notifications in FME Server, everywhere that it's necessary to enter email account credentials such as for SMTP and IMAP publications, provide a 'Send Test Email' or equivalent button to prove that you've added the account correctly before you go any further and spend ages troubleshooting only to find out you miskeyed a password. Also have an option to show password so that you can see what you've typed is correct before hiding the password again.
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With FME Server 2016.0 there is an automatic validation performed when the Subscription or Publication is saved. We opted to not add a separate test button as we felt that doing the validation at the same time as the save was sufficient. Give it a try and let us know how it works for you.
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@aaronkoning But the completed solution does not actually send a test email.
I would like this option to go in the PythonEmailer too. I used that transformer in a workspace and needed to revise the workspace a few times, because I mistyped the credentials.
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Thanks for commenting. The original request to "prove that you've added the account correctly" is handled by the validation in 2016.0. If you want to send a test email, then the Test topic functionality can be used. There you can can send an email with default settings or override the settings.
The PythonEmailer is a separate piece of functionality. I would recommend creating a separate Idea for that.
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