What You Should Know About Mail Server Connections

17-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter ■ Section 17.3.2, Mail Server - Configuration ■ Section 17.3.3, Mail Server - Security Considerations ■ Section 17.3.4, Mail Server - Limitations

17.3.1 Mail Server - Installation

See your mail server documentation for installation information.

17.3.2 Mail Server - Configuration

You can allow WebCenter to create and manage Space distribution lists in WebCenter Spaces or in WebCenter Portal applications leveraging WebCenter Spaces Space management. This feature is supported only with Microsoft Exchange. The Space distribution list is created automatically whenever a Space is created. Users added or removed from the Space are implicitly added or removed from the corresponding Space distribution list, provided that the LDAP Base DN does not change only one LDAP Base DN is supported and that users created on Microsoft Exchange Active Directory correspond with users created in the identity store used by the WebCenter application. To disable this feature, do not enter the LDAP Active Directory server details in the mail connection. For more information, see step 7 of Section 17.4.1, Registering Mail Servers Using Fusion Middleware Control. For information about adding users on a mail server, see the mail servers product documentation. For information about adding users to the WebCenter applications identity store, see Section 28.3, Adding Users to the Embedded LDAP Identity Store. Microsoft Exchange 2007 is the only mail server for which there are configuration prerequisites. If you are working with a different mail server including Microsoft Exchange 2003, then you can skip the rest of this section.

17.3.2.1 Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for WebCenter

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 certificate must be added to the WebCenter keystore. This requires the following steps. 1. Section 17.3.2.1.1, Obtain the Certificate from the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 2. Section 17.3.2.1.2, Add the Certificate to the WebCenter Keystore 3. Restart the server after the certificate is imported.

17.3.2.1.1 Obtain the Certificate from the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Obtain the

certificate from your mail server installation administrator. This section describes one way to get the certificate from the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Follow these steps to obtain the certificate from a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server. 1. Open a browser and connect to your IMAP server with the following command: https:host_nameowa Where host_name is the name of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

2. Place your cursor on the page, right-click, and select Properties, then click

Certificate . 3. In the popup window, click the Details tab, and click Copy to File...