Reading emails has become a large part of our everyday lives. The first thing we do in the morning when we reach the office is fire up Outlook to catch up on what has happened while we were away. Since robots model the way we work, the same can be said of them. The processes that robots execute often use email to do the following:
- Send status notifications when a process completes
- Send error messages when something goes wrong and requires human inspection
- Receive email orders to start a process
These are just some examples. There are many other areas where email has an important role in the processes that robots run.
In this chapter, we will learn the basics on how to configure the robot to do the following:
- Send emails
- Format the mail message body
- Send attachments
- Receive emails
