Setting up an SMTP gateway
To create
an SMTP gateway, use the following procedure.
- Click Account Admin > Profiles > Community Participant.
- Enter search criteria and click Search,
or click Search without entering any search criteria
to display a list of all participants.
- Click the View details icon to display
the participant's profile.
- Click Gateways.
- Click Create.
Gateway Details
From the Gateway List page, perform the following steps:
- Type a name to identify the gateway. This is a required field.
- Optionally indicate the status of the gateway. Enabled is
the default. A gateway that is enabled is ready to send documents.
A gateway that is disabled cannot send documents.
- Optionally indicate whether the gateway is Online or Offline.
The default is Online.
- Optionally enter a description of the gateway.
Gateway Configuration
In the Gateway Configuration section
of the page, perform the following steps:
- Select SMTP from the Transport list.
- In the Address field, enter the URI where
the document will be delivered. This field is required.
The format is: mailto:<user@server_name>
For example:
mailto:admin@anotherserver.ibm.com
- Optionally enter a user name and password, if a user name and
password are required to access the SMTP server.
- In the Retry Count field, enter the number
of times you want the gateway to attempt to send a document before
it fails. The default is 3.
- In the Retry Interval field, enter the
amount of time the gateway should wait before attempting to send
the document again. The default is 300 seconds.
- In the Number of Threads field, enter
the number of documents that can be processed simultaneously. The
default is 3.
- In the Validate Client IP field, select Yes if
you want the IP address of the sender to be validated before the
document is processed. Select No otherwise.
The default is No.
- In the Auto Queue field, select Yes if
you want the gateway to be placed offline (automatically) if a delivery
failure is about to occur because the number of retries has been
exhausted. Select No otherwise. The default
is No.
When you select Auto Queue, all documents
remain queued until the gateway is placed online manually.
- In the Authentication Required field,
indicate whether a user name and password are supplied with the
document. The default is No.
- If you want to configure the Preprocess or Postprocess step
for the gateway, go to Configuring handlers.
Otherwise, click Save.
