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Connecting to hosted email services
To access message services provided by Unica, you must configure a connection between the local HCL Unica installation and HCL Unica.
Configuring secure communication for hosted email
Communications between the email marketer and HCL Unica hosted services occur over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). You must change the web application server configuration to use SSL. Making the required changes requires using the Java™ keytool utility.

Administrator Guides
- Startup and Administrator Guide
  - Hosted messaging using Campaign and Deliver
    When Unica Campaign is integrated with Unica Deliver, you can use Deliver to conduct highly personalized digital marketing campaigns.
  - Configuring the local HCL Unica environment for Deliver
  - Connecting to hosted email services
    To access message services provided by Unica, you must configure a connection between the local HCL Unica installation and HCL Unica.
    - Requirements for configuring connection to HCL Unica Hosted Services
      Configuring a connection to HCL Unica hosted services requires administrative permissions and information about the hosted email account established for your organization.
    - About uploading data to HCL Unica Hosted Services
    - About downloading data from HCL Unica Hosted Services
    - Configuring a system user to access HCL Unica Hosted Services
      Deliver components must be able to access the HCL Unica hosted services without requiring manual entry of login credentials. To establish automatic login, define a system user in Platform that can provide the required access credentials.
    - Configuring addresses for connecting to HCL Unica hosted services
      To ensure proper connection to HCL Unica hosted services, you must enter the addresses as values for configuration properties in the Deliver configuration. The connection addresses that you enter depend on whether you are connecting to the Unica U.S. data center or to the Unica data center in the Europe.
    - IP address of Deliver host names
    - Configuring secure communication for hosted email
      Communications between the email marketer and HCL Unica hosted services occur over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). You must change the web application server configuration to use SSL. Making the required changes requires using the Java™ keytool utility.
      - Generating a trusted keystore
        Follow this procedure to create an identity keystore and a trusted keystore for configuring Unica Deliver to communicate with HCL Unica hosted services over SSL. You add the keystores to the web application server when you configure SSL.
      - Configuring SSL when using WebLogic
        This section describes the steps required to configure SSL if you deploy HCL Unica components on Oracle WebLogic. This change is required to allow Deliver components that operate inside Campaign to communicate with HCL Unica hosted services over SSL.
      - Configuring SSL when using IBM WebSphere
        This section describes the general steps required to configure SSL if you have deployed HCL Unica components on WebSphere®. This change is required to allow Deliver components that operate inside Campaign to communicate with HCL Unica hosted services over SSL.
    - Deploying Campaign in Tomcat or JBOSS
  - Working with the Response and Contact Tracker
    The Response and Contact Tracker (RCT) is installed in your local environment and communicates with HCL Unica hosted services to retrieve and process data for email contacts, email delivery, and recipient responses, such as link clicks and opens. The RCT must be running in order to retrieve link tracking and email delivery notification data from HCL Unica hosted services .
  - Testing the Deliver installation
    To ensure access to all hosted email features, test the configurations and connections for your Campaign and Deliver installations after you enable Deliver, expand your Deliver installation, or upgrade the Campaign installation.
  - Configurations for Unica Deliver
    The Unica Platform provides various configuration properties to modify the behavior and appearance of Deliver. Some configuration properties are set during installation. You can change configuration properties at any time.
  - Utilities for Deliver
    Deliver provides several scripts that you use to administer Deliver functions.
  - About troubleshooting Deliver
    Unica Deliver provides various tools and techniques that you can use to investigate issues related to your Campaign and Deliver installations.
  - Managing user access to mailing features
    Campaign and Deliver use roles and permissions provided by the Unica Platform to control user access to messaging features in Deliver and Campaign. You must have permissions in Unica Platform and Campaign to make the required changes. You must also be familiar with how to configure roles and permissions in the Platform and how to define security policies for Campaign.
  - Technote (troubleshooting)
  - Deliver channel vendor account configuration
- Transactional Message Administrator Guide

Configuring secure communication for hosted email

Communications between the email marketer and HCL Unica hosted services occur over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). You must change the web application server configuration to use SSL. Making the required changes requires using the Java™ keytool utility.

Configuring the secure communication involves the following actions.

Generate a trusted keystore.
Obtain a digital certificate from HCL Unica hosted services.
Add the trusted keystore to the web application server.
Import the HCL Unica hosted services digital certificate into the trusted keystore.

The exact steps and sequence required to configure SSL depend on the type and version of web application server (WebSphere®, WebLogic, Tomcat, JBOSS) on which you deployed Unica Platform and Unica Campaign.

For WebLogic, see Configuring SSL when using WebLogic.

For WebSphere®, see Configuring SSL when using WebSphere.

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