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Use

Certain settings are necessary in the relevant components to enable external sending in the SAP system. The following information gives you an overview of the settings you need to make in SAPconnect, in address management, and in the Business Workplace. Additional settings may be necessary for sending from an application. These are described in the relevant application documentation.

Process

Settings for the connection

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Creating a Service User

For more information, see Creating a Service User.

SU01

Create ICF service

For more information, see Creating Services for the SMTP Plug-In.

SICF

Settings in SAPconnect

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Create or change node

For more information, see Nodes.

SCOT

Maintaining Inbound Distribution

For more information, see Inbound Distribution.

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Schedule send processes

For more information, see Send Processes.

SCOT

User settings

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Maintain address

SAP users can only send and receive in the communication methods for which they are assigned an address. If you have specified a default domain for sending over the Internet, a sender address is created automatically when documents are sent using the communication method Internet for users to whom no Internet address is assigned. For more information on Addresses, see the documentation BC - Business Workplace.

SU01 or SO12

Assign send authorizations

Users require send authorizations. The authorization object S_OC_SEND and (as values) the permitted communication methods and the maximum number of recipients to which a user may address a message are assigned to you. The authorizations required for sending are, by default, contained in the role SAP_BC_SRV_USER for the end user of the Business Workplace.

SU01

Settings in the Business Workplace

Function

Description

Transaction

Check send restrictions

In the Business Workplace shared office settings, you can activate send restrictions for sending from the Workplace interface. For example, sending may be allowed only internally or externally, only using address management.

SOADM

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