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Oracle® Application Server Integration InterConnect Adapter for SMTP Installation and User's Guide
10g Release 2 (10.1.2)
B14075-02
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1 Introduction

This chapter provides an overview on how to use Oracle Application Server Integration InterConnect (OracleAS Integration InterConnect) Adapter for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP adapter). It contains the following topics:

SMTP Adapter Overview

The SMTP adapter enables an Oracle SMTP application to be integrated with other applications using OracleAS Integration InterConnect. The SMTP adapter is useful in all Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) environments where e-mail uses the Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4) and SMTP. EAI is the integration of applications and business processes within the same company.

The SMTP adapter can monitor incoming messages in the form of e-mail placed on an IMAP server. The SMTP adapter is also capable of sending messages to SMTP servers. The payload type (the type of data being delivered to a destination) for this adapter is one of the following:

Figure 1-1 depicts the data flow of incoming messages from an IMAP server to OracleAS Integration InterConnect.

Figure 1-1 Incoming Messages

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Description of "Figure 1-1 Incoming Messages"

Figure 1-2 depicts the data flow of outgoing messages from OracleAS Integration InterConnect to an SMTP server.

Figure 1-2 Outgoing Messages

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Description of "Figure 1-2 Outgoing Messages"

SMTP Adapter System Requirements

The following sections describe the system requirements for the SMTP adapter:

Hardware Requirements

Table 1-1 lists the hardware requirements for installing the SMTP adapter.

Table 1-1 Hardware Requirements

Hardware Windows 2000 UNIX

Disk space

400 MB

400 MB

Memory

512 MB

512 MB


Software Requirements

The following sections describe the software requirements for the SMTP adapter:

Operating System Requirements

Table 1-2 lists the operating system requirements for installing the SMTP adapter.

Table 1-2 Operating System Requirements

Operating System Version

HP Tru64

HP Tru64 UNIX (Alpha) 5.1b

HP-UX

HP-UX (PA-RISC) 11.11, 11.23

IBM AIX

AIX (POWER) version 5.2

Linux (x86)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0

SuSE SLES8, SLES9

Sun SPARC Solaris

Sun SPARC Solaris 2.8 and 2.9

Microsoft Windows

Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 (SP3 or higher)


JRE Requirements

OracleAS Integration InterConnect uses Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4, which is installed with its components.

Known SMTP Adapter Limitations

The SMTP adapter has the following limitations: