Mail Adapter 

Purpose

The mail adapter enables you to connect e-mail servers to the Integration Server or the PCK.

The receiver mail adapter converts XI messages to e-mails and uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) or the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to transfer them to the e-mail server. The sender mail adapter uses the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or the Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) to collect e-mails and convert them to XI messages.

If an e-mail server is communicating with the mail adapter, you can configure security settings to encrypt/decrypt and sign/verify messages. Here, message security is based on the S/MIME internet standard (Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension).

For FAQs about the mail adapter, see SAP Note 856599.

Integration

You configure the adapter in the configuration part of the Integration Builder/PCK.

Features

·        To send content from e-mail servers to the Integration Server/PCK, you configure the sender mail adapter.

·        To convert XML messages from the Integration Server/PCK to e-mails, you configure the receiver mail adapter. The receiver adapter supports system acknowledgments but not application acknowledgments.