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Notify Process

The notify process lets you send a mail message to individual users or all members of one or more user groups. When a notify process is set up, a default message can be specified and default users and groups to notify. These defaults determine how the execution dialog appears when it is first accessed. You can override the defaults.

Note: If two or more users share the same email account only one mail message is generated. Duplicate mail messages are not generated when the same user is a member of multiple user groups.

The mail program to use and the destination of any program output are also specified during setup, but these aspects of the notify process cannot be modified at execution time.

• On UNIX and Linux, the mail program executes on the client.
• On Windows, the mail program executes from the server. The message header generated by the mail program records that the user who started the server process sent the message. A line following the header displays the name of the client user who initiated the notification process.