Configuring mail servers for polling

If the e-Mail adapter must poll for e-mail messages to send to the integration broker, you must configure the mail servers to provide the mailboxes and poll locations that the e-Mail adapter uses for polling. To configure mail servers, do the following:

  1. Create user accounts that can access the poll locations. Users can be located on a single mail server or on multiple mail servers.
  2. Configure the poll locations for each user by creating a poll folder, archive folder, and failed event folder for each poll location. Although users may have multiple poll locations, and poll locations can be located on different mail servers, the three folders for a poll location must be located in the same mailbox. The adapter connects to these folders using the user name and password of the mailbox owner.

Note that the adapter does not use these mailboxes when sending business object requests. Instead, it uses the mail server name as specified by the SMTP_MailHost adapter configuration property.

Copyright IBM Corp. 2003