EmailXtender and SMTP-Archiving

I've never done it but I imagine you need to allow relay from your mail gateway on the EX SMTP server. I did find some information in an old training guide. Hope this helps.

"In a typical configuration, IM and Bloomberg mail arrives on the
EmailXtender server through an SMTP server on the EmailXtender
machine (as in the case of IM and SMTP) or are copied to
\inetpub\mailroot\drop as files (as in the case of Bloomberg).

Instant message capture uses a similar process, but the messages
are first captured by a third-party product, such as FaceTime®, and
stored in a SQL database where the data is available for export to
EmailXtender. The administrator can then move the files to the
\InetPub\Mailroot\Drop directory, where they are processed by
EmailXtender."

I made EmailXtender works with exim (linux box). It was archiving fine.
Also search was working well (Active Directory users).
kind regrds.

Thanks guys, that did help indeed.

Hi, I had this lying in my inbox for some time.

Every SMTP-Server in the environment need to configure the SMTP-Server on EX as a relay (smart host).

To enable SMTP-archiving on the EX-server, one needs to register an EventSink on the EX-Server (SMTP-component). This EventSink needs to "forward" the email to an non-existing domain. Only then the EX-server puts the emails in the drop-directory where EX can fetch them.

EMC does not provide the EventSink. One can program this oneself or buy it from partners.

Regards,
Jochen.