Configuring site email options for MAPI

Configure email options for MAPI.

About this task

Your HCL Compass user account must have the Super User privilege to configure site email options.

When you use MAPI, all email notification messages that HCL Compass Web sends have the From and Reply To addresses of the domain-user email account that is configured for HCL Compass Web. The email address UserCQWeb@MyExchangeServer is used in the next examples.

The procedure to configure email options for MAPI varies depending on whether your deployment includes a single HCL Compass Server or multiple HCL Compass Servers. Use one of the next procedures as appropriate for your deployment.

Configuring the site email options for a single HCL Compass Server deployment

To configure site e-mail options for one HCL Compass server computer:

  1. Log in to HCL Compass.
  2. Complete the required information on the E-Mail Options page of the Site Configuration window:
    1. In the Sending E-mail Status list, select Active or Inactive, as appropriate.
    2. In the Mail Transport Type list, select MAPI.
    3. In the MAPI Mail Server field, enter the name of your Microsoft™ Exchange Server. In this example, the MAPI mail server is MyExchangeServer.
    4. In the MAPI Mailbox Alias field, enter the domain-user email account that HCL Compass Web uses to send email notification. In this example, the mail account is UserCQWebAlias.
Configuring the site email options for a multiple HCL Compass Server deployment

To configure site e-mail options for a multiple HCL Compass Server deployment:

Perform these steps identically on each HCL Compass Server in your deployment. Do not use the E-mail Options page of the Site Configuration window.

  1. Log in by using the domain user name that HCL Compass Web uses to send email notification, in this example MyDomain\UserCQWeb.
  2. Edit your Windows™ Registry settings by using regedt32. To configure the same settings on each HCL Compass Server, create a .reg file and then import it into the regedt32 editor.
    1. Create this key:

      HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HCL\Email\SendMail

    2. Create these values under the SendMail key:
      • For SendActive, type one of these DWORD values: 1 for active, 0 for inactive.
      • For MailTransport, type MAPI.
      • For MAPIServer, type the string value for the Microsoft Exchange Server, in this example MyExchangeServer.
      • For MAPIProfileAlias, type the string value of the domain-user email account that HCL Compass Web uses to send email notification, in this example UserCQWebAlias.

If you change any of these values on one HCL Compass Server host in your deployment, you must make the corresponding change on the other hosts.