Using the CTP EmailService Pipeline Stage

This article describes how to configure the CTP EmailService pipeline stage to send emails when studies are processed. The intended audience for this article is CTP administrators configuring pipelines for clinical trials.

The EmailService is a processor stage. For each object it receives, it stores the identifier of the study (StudyInstanceUID) and the time the object was encountered. If no object is encountered for a study after 10 minutes, it then sends an email to the recipients identified in the stage's configuration element.

The EmailService is only capable of sending to SMTP email servers.

The recommended way to configure the EmailService into a pipeline is to use the Configuration editor in the Launcher program. See

The contents

<EmailService
    name="EmailService"
    class="org.rsna.ctp.stdstages.EmailService"
    root="roots/EmailService"
    script="scripts/EmailService.script"
    smtpServer=""
    username=""
    password=""
    from=""
    to=""
    cc=""
    subject=""
    includeModality="no"
    includePatientID="no"
    includePatientName="no"
    includeStudyDate="no"
    logSentEmails="no"
    quarantine="quarantines/EmailService"/>