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title: "Run Application"
slug: "run-application"
updated: 2023-12-13T10:26:13Z
published: 2023-12-13T10:26:13Z
canonical: "help.mail-and-deploy.com/run-application"
---

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# Run Application

### General

This type of action can be used to run an external application (such as a batch or executable file).

          NOTE

          

This type of action is not available in the SaaS version of Mail & Deploy.

### Properties

This type of action has the following properties:

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Application Path | An Expression that evaluates to a String that contains the path to the application to execute. |
| Arguments | An optional Expression that evaluates to a String that contains commandline arguments to pass on to the application. |
| Run As Specific User | When disabled, the application will be run under the Service Account; when enabled, you can specifiy credentials of the windows account to run the application as. |
| Maximum Number of Retries | The execution of the external application is considered successful, if the process returns exit code 0. If it does not, you can specify the maximum number of retries to perform. |