Check E-mail Status

Use the Check E-mail Status form before generating emails from Opera. This will check the status of the previous email run and then make sure that each employee is updated with the correct status. This is not necessary the first time emails are generated but must be done all other times.

Open the Payroll - E-mail Admin form and select Check E-mail Status.

The Last received status boxes display the status in Opera 3 of the emails that were last generated using either the Payroll - Payment Reports - Payslips form or the Payroll - EOY/Special Reports - P60 End of Year Returns form.

The Updated status boxes display the status in Opera 3 of the emails after being updated with the latest status by .

Status

Description

Generation pending

Correspondence sent to but still needs to be converted to PDF files.

E-mail pending

Correspondence sent to that has been successfully converted to PDF files but has not been sent to the SMTP server for transmission.

Generation/E-mail failed

Correspondence sent to but has either failed the conversion to PDF files or could not be sent to the SMTP server for transmission.

E-mail sent

Correspondence sent to that has been successfully converted to PDF files and has also been sent to the SMTP server for transmission.

Tip: To set up Payroll for email, follow the steps in the To Set up Payroll for Emailing Payslips and P60s Help topic.

To see a report of emails sent, who sent them, when they were sent and so on, use the Historical Emailed PayslipsP60s Summary report.

This feature is available in Opera 3.