Adapter for e-Mail environment

Before installing, configuring, and using the adapter, you must understand its environment requirements. They are listed in the following sections:

Adapter platforms

In addition to a broker, this adapter requires one of the following operating systems:

Locale-dependent data

The adapter has been internationalized so that it can support double-byte character sets, and deliver message text in the specified language. When the adapter transfers data from a location that uses one character code set to a location that uses a different code set, it performs character conversion to preserve the meaning of the data.

The Java runtime environment within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) represents data in the Unicode character code set. Unicode contains encodings for characters in most known character code sets (both single-byte and multibyte). Most components in the WebSphere Business Integration Server Express system are written in Java. Therefore, when data is transferred between most WebSphere Business Integration Server Express system components, there is no need for character conversion.

To log error and informational messages in the appropriate language and for the appropriate country or territory, configure the Locale standard configuration property for your environment. For more information on these properties, see Appendix A, "Standard configuration properties for adapters"

This adapter supports the processing of bidirectional script data for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Farsi and Yiddish. To use the bidirectional capacity, you must configure the bidirectional standard properties. For more information, refer to the standard configuration properties for connectors in Appendix A, Standard configuration properties for adapters.

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