Set up a SMTP Server
This topic describes the general steps you must take to set up a SMTP server
for testing your eProcess Services Notifications. Since there are many commercially
available SMTP applications and hundreds of different configurations, you should
view the procedures listed as general guidelines. You can set up SMTP services
on the Web WorkFlo server; however, you must also install a SMTP-compliant mail
server (like Microsoft Exchange) on the same server or have access to a server
with the mail server application already installed.
Note Regardless of the mail server
application you choose, you must refer to the installation and administration
documentation for that mail server software to answer specific configuration
or user interface questions.
Configure SMTP Services on Windows 2000
The SMTP Service is installed with the Windows 2000 operating system. Perform
the following steps to configure the SMTP Service on your server:
- On your designated server, point to Start.
Navigate to Programs, point to Administrative
Tools, then point to and click Internet
Service Manager. The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) displays.
- From MMC, locate and expand the Internet
Information Services. Locate and highlight your server's name. Expand
the options under your server's name.
- Locate the Default
SMTP Virtual Site option, and expand it. From Domains
create a remote domain. Specify a unique domain name (for example, mailtest.com).
Make the name unique so there are no conflicts across the current domain.
- Highlight and click on your new domain. Right-click
and choose Properties. Select
Allow incoming mail to be relayed to this domain option. Leave all
other settings as the default. Click OK.
Exit MMC.
Configure SMTP Services on Windows NT
In order to perform the procedure listed in this section, you must have already
installed the SMTP Services from the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack installer. Perform
the following steps to configure the SMTP Service on your server:
- On your designated server, point to Start.
Navigate to Programs, point to Windows
NT 4.0 Option Pack, then point to Microsoft
Internet Information Server. Finally, point to and click Internet Service Manager. The Microsoft Management
Console (MMC) displays.
- From MMC, locate and expand the Internet
Information Server. Locate and highlight your server's name. Expand
the options under your server's name.
- Locate the Default
SMTP Site option, and expand it. From Domains
create a remote domain. Specify a unique domain name (for example, mailtest.com).
Make the name unique so there are no conflicts across the current domain.
- Highlight and click on your new domain. Right-click
and choose Properties. Select
Allow incoming mail to be relayed to this domain option. Leave all
other settings as the default. Click OK.
Exit MMC.
Install and configure a mail services application
Install a preferred mail services application (for example, Microsoft Exchange
or ArGoSoft Mail Server). You can download an evaluation copy of the ArGoSoft
Mail Server (http://www.argosoft.com), which is a SMTP/POP3/Finger capable application,
for testing purposes.
While installing and configuring your mail server software, you will have to
supply the following information (not necessarily in this order):
- Domain name you specified in the SMTP Service
properties dialog
- Number of mailboxes being used
- Image Services and/or Content Services user
names (when creating mail user accounts)
Configure the mail client
This procedure assume you are using Microsoft Outlook as a mail client. Perform
the following general steps to configure Microsoft Outlook as your mail client:
- On a client, point to Start.
Navigate to Settings, and point to
and click Control Panel.
- From the Control Panel window, open Mail.
- Click Show Profiles
and click Add.
- From the Microsoft
Outlook Setup Wizard dialog box, select Internet E-mail only. Click
Next.
- Add a user profile name (for example, SysAdmin).
Click Next. Click Setup
Mail Account.
- In the General
tab, enter an Account Name (for example, "Primary test mail account").
Configure other account information as needed.
- In the Servers
tab, verify or enter the name of the Incoming
Mail (POP3) Server, which should be the name of the server running
your mail server software. Verify or enter the Outgoing
mail server (SMTP), which should be the name of the server with both
IIS and SMTP running.
- In the Incoming
Mail Server Account Name field, enter the user name and password you
created during the mail server configuration stage. Click OK.
- From the Microsoft
Outlook Setup Wizard dialog box, click Next
for Internet Email. Enter a name for
the Personal Address Book.
- Enter a similar name for the Personal
Folders option. Click Next.
- Repeat these steps for any other users you created.
Configure eProcess email notification
On your Panagon WorkFlo Server, edit the vwserver.ini
file, which resides in the \fnsw_loc\sd
directory, to include the SMTP Server name and the Web WorkFlo server name.
Your file might contain entries similar to the following:
SMTPHost=CRONOS
EmailLogonId=SysAdmin@mailtest.com
EmailFromId=SysAdmin@mailtest.com
WebServer=CRONOS
where CRONOS is the name of the server running SMTP Services and
Web WorkFlo, and SysAdmin@mailtest.com is the user name created during your
mail server configuration.
Configure your TCP/IP connections
Modify the HOSTS file, on every computer you are using for testing, to include
all servers needed to participate in the workflow. For example, include
the address and names of the system running the mail server application, the
web server, and WorkFlo Services server. A generalized HOSTS file might appear
as shown below:
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.0.1.101 cronos #Web WorkFlo server
10.0.1.242 titan #mail server
10.0.1.451 warbird #WorkFlo Services server
You need not perform this step if your servers are enlisted in a DHCP configuration.