Email Service

Wren:IDM provides a built-in service to send email notifications. The service uses external outbound SMTP mail server. Email notifications can be sent in two ways – by a script or through REST API.

Outbound Server Configuration

The outbound email server is configured through external.email.json file in project/conf directory. The following configuration properties are available:

host –⁠ SMTP server hostname (e.g. smtp.gmail.com or localhost)
port –⁠ SMTP server port (e.g. 25 or 587)
debug –⁠ flag indicating whether JavaMail debug mode is enabled (See JavaMail FAQ)
auth – SMTP server authentication properties
- enable – flag indicating whether authentication is required
- username – account to be used to connect to the SMTP server
- password – account’s password
starttls – SMTP server authentication properties
from – default sender email address (optional, can be specified for each email separately)

Example of configuration for Google SMTP server:

{
  "host": "smtp.gmail.com",
  "port": "587",
  "debug": false,
  "auth": {
    "enable": true,
    "username": "foobar",
    "password": "wrensecurity"
  },
  "starttls": {
    "enable": true
  },
  "from": "info@wrensecurity.org"
}

Sending Email

Email notifications can be sent in two ways: by a script or through REST API. Both options use the same notification properties:

from –⁠ sender email address
to –⁠ email recipients (comma-separated list of email addresses)
cc – recipients of email copy (comma-separated list of email addresses)
bcc –⁠ recipients of email blind copy (comma-separated list of email addresses)
subject –⁠ email subject
body –⁠ email body
type –⁠ email type (text/plain, text/html or text/xml)

Using Script

You can send email notification using action resource with external/email context. In the following example a testing email is sent to recipient@wrensecurity.org:

var params = {
  from: 'idm@wrensecurity.org',
  to: 'recipient@wrensecurity.org',
  subject: 'Testing Notification',
  type: 'text/plain',
  body: 'This is testing email notification sent from Wren:IDM.'
};
openidm.action('external/email', 'send', params);

Using REST API

You can send email notification using REST API by sending a HTTP POST request to the /openidm/external/email resource. In the following example a testing email is sent to recipient@wrensecurity.org:

curl \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -u openidm-admin:openidm-admin \
  -XPOST --data '{
    "from":"idm@wrensecurity.org",
    "to":"recipient@wrensecurity.org",
    "subject":"Testing Notification",
    "type":"text/plain",
    "body":"This is testing email notification sent from Wren:IDM."
   }' \
  "http://localhost:8080/openidm/external/email?_action=send"

The following response is returned when the email is sent successfully:

{ "status": "OK" }