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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Email handling as apps grow – how are you structuring it?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/best-practices/40173/email-handling-as-apps-grow-how-are-you-structuring-it</link><description>In one of our production apps, we currently send emails directly from the main process models using the Send Email smart service. 
 As volume is increasing, we’re starting to rethink whether this is the best long-term approach. 
 For those who’ve worked</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Email handling as apps grow – how are you structuring it?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/153465?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:28:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:4b25d5a8-6658-4341-826d-92e8eb2ef325</guid><dc:creator>Arunkumar Arumugam</dc:creator><description>&lt;p data-start="421" data-end="457"&gt;Thanks everyone, this is helpful.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p data-start="464" data-end="580"&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re moving toward a centralized async email utility subprocess so the core models stay focused on business flow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p data-start="587" data-end="692"&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll standardize sender/template config there and contain retries + failure logging within that layer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p data-start="699" data-end="723"&gt;Appreciate the insights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Email handling as apps grow – how are you structuring it?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/153464?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:40:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:a393e316-68fb-4560-9bfd-f722400ea951</guid><dc:creator>Shubham Aware</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Keep email logic in a reusable utility subprocess with standard inputs/outputs, and keep main process models focused on core business flow. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Main process triggers email subprocess asynchronously, subprocess handles retries and logs failures separately.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Email handling as apps grow – how are you structuring it?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/153456?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:52:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b5e71b2e-44f0-466b-b3ce-cbf0786c0984</guid><dc:creator>Stefan Helzle</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I would also opt for a reusable model. It makes it easy to enforce using certain templates or other settings like sender email.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Email handling as apps grow – how are you structuring it?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/153455?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:07:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:36905c25-3c04-4f1f-809d-2a3448ad9511</guid><dc:creator>Harsha Sharma</dc:creator><description>[quote userid="328186" url="~/discussions/f/best-practices/40173/email-handling-as-apps-grow-how-are-you-structuring-it"]do you keep email logic in the main process, or move it to a reusable subprocess[/quote]
&lt;p&gt;A reusable process having send email node with parameters like to,cc,attachmnets, body,subject etc. Only if there is a specific email template is there not inline with generic emails we send then that node is put directly in respective process model. Otherwise we use the reusable sub process.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>