Elink 9.7.0 and Exchange 2007

[brettsanders]

Looking for any inside information from someone who has elink working with exchange 2007 and livleink 9.7.x. All the concepts have changed in 2007 and Opentext doesnt have any official support for elink 9.7.0.

 

[appnair]

it is a bit unclear to me.What are you looking for help on the exchange side or livelink side.If you look at the architecture on the exchange side a exchange admin has to create a SMTP connector that routes to a livelink email POPserver box.Are u saying that is not possible now in exchange 2007?I very much doubt it because that is core mail functionality.BTW some mail admins sometimes refer to the SMTP as a MXRecord(which technically is wrong)
When the mail is obtained in the livelink pop server
(it is OT's version of a sendmail daemon) it just uses the elink address to create objects in livelink.I recently configured elink on 9.7 system and I really did not know whether the exchange there is 2007 or not .I like to install elink on the livelink admin server so it is less shielded from user traffic and most people run agents on the admin server anyways.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Certified OT Developer and probably certfiable,Livelink ECM Champion 2008

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[ggriffit]

There are two approaches for Exchange 2007 :

1. Install the Edge Transport Server and then you can use that to create a catch all mailboxes that you need for eLink.

2. Configure a Mail Connector to push all the email for the domain onto the eLink server.

This is due to the way that Exchange 2007 works in that they separated out the POP3 component into a separate server.

There are a few custom scripts out there which simulate a catch all mailbox on an Exchange 2007 setup without the Edge Transport Server, but these just create aliases for every possible address and forward them to the common POP3 account. You can do a search for these on the web.



Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/

 

[appnair]

Greg as always very good to read your post.This should come in handy for me as well.I am still in the old methodology that should still work don't they?

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Certified OT Developer and probably certfiable,Livelink ECM Champion 2008

http://www.linkedin.com/in/appunair

 

[brettsanders]

Option two is what we are looking at. Traditionally we would set up an smtp connector that would forward all mail destined to *@elink.domain.com to the elink server. I just need specific steps to configure that in exchange 07 so i can pass that on to the customer admin.