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# Adding a Send Email (SMTP) Task Step

To add a new Send Email (SMTP) step to an existing task, do the following:

1. Open the relevant task (for creating new tasks, see Creating a New Task).
2. Either:

|  | Click and drag the Send Email (SMTP) icon from the Task Browser to the task Design area.

|  | Click on the Environment tab in the Task Browser. Right-click on Steps and select New > Output > Send Email (SMTP).

|  | From the task's Design tab, right-click on empty space and select New > Output > Send Email (SMTP).

3. Enter a Name and Description for the step.
4. If a data source is being used, select Read documents from a source and choose the document from the Document Source drop-down.
5. Select the Main tab.
6. Click From and choose a user name for the message sender (Select From dialog).
7. Click To, Cc, and Bcc and choose message recipients (Select Recipients dialog).
   1. Alternatively, where columns in the data source contain addresses, dynamic addresses can be used for both sender and recipients by dragging and dropping a column into the address fields from the Task Browser.
8. If required, click Attach to send a file with the message (Attachments dialog).
9. Add a Subject title. If required, use columns, properties, and variables from the Task Browser dialog for a dynamic subject.
10. To send a custom message in the email, select Message Contents, then enter the message into the Message text box. If required, columns, properties, and variables can be dragged and dropped into the message from the Task Browser.
11. To send just the document selected in the General tab or the attachment, select Document output only.
12. If required, select Memory to create a Repository to memorise some or all of the recordset used by the step (Memory Definitions dialog).
13. Select the Options tab then select the error options required.
14. Click OK step and close the dialog. An icon for the step is displayed on the Task Plan.

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