Is it possible to send an email message from a BizTalk orchestration
using Microsoft Exchange Server instead of the standard SMTP adapter
and if yes how is this achieved?

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If you do not want to use the standard SMTP adapter, you would have to code
this in .NET.  What is the reason you'd want to do this please?  The SMTP
adapter offers you a lot a flexibility like: retries, HAT integration,
tracking, monitoring, ...

Best regards,
Christof


"darin dimitrov" <darin_dimitrov@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to send an email message from a BizTalk orchestration
> using Microsoft Exchange Server instead of the standard SMTP adapter
> and if yes how is this achieved?

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Hello,

>Is it possible to send an email message from a BizTalk orchestration
>using Microsoft Exchange Server instead of the standard SMTP adapter
>and if yes how is this achieved?

First, while you can always communicate to the outside world from an orchest
ration
by calling a class in an assembly you wrote, this is strongly discouraged. Y
ou should
only be communicating with the outside world by sending messages through pip
eline(s)
and have adapter(s) take care of the actual message(s) send (after the pipel
ine has processed things).

The SMTP adapter will need an SMTP server to send messages to.
The SMTP adapter does not route messages itself, it just hands them off to a
 server
that knows how to route e-mails. Therefore, you can point the SMTP adapter t
o
your exchange server (and make sure it is configured to allow SMTP)
and you will then automatically have exchange route e-mails.

As I am sure you already knew, Exchange complements BizTalk as far as e-mail
 transport is concerned

However, I may have totally misunderstood your question and maybe you meant 
that SMTP
is not the protocol you want to use to send messages. If you plan on using s
omething else
than SMTP, then, you will need to either acquire an adapter for this protoco
l or write your own.
Out of the box, BizTalk 2004 comes with SMTP, FILE, MSMQ, SMTP, SOAP, HTTP, 
FTP as transports.

Thanks.
-Gilles.

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Gilles@online.microsoft.com (Gilles [MSFT]) wrote in message news:<A8UdhzTWEHA.3788@cpms
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> Hello,
> 
>
> First, while you can always communicate to the outside world from an orche
stration
> by calling a class in an assembly you wrote, this is strongly discouraged.
 You should
> only be communicating with the outside world by sending messages through p
ipeline(s)
> and have adapter(s) take care of the actual message(s) send (after the pip
eline has processed things).
>
> The SMTP adapter will need an SMTP server to send messages to.
> The SMTP adapter does not route messages itself, it just hands them off to
 a server
> that knows how to route e-mails. Therefore, you can point the SMTP adapter
 to
> your exchange server (and make sure it is configured to allow SMTP)
> and you will then automatically have exchange route e-mails.
>
> As I am sure you already knew, Exchange complements BizTalk as far as e-ma
il transport is concerned
>
> However, I may have totally misunderstood your question and maybe you mean
t that SMTP
> is not the protocol you want to use to send messages. If you plan on using
 something else
> than SMTP, then, you will need to either acquire an adapter for this proto
col or write your own.
> Out of the box, BizTalk 2004 comes with SMTP, FILE, MSMQ, SMTP, SOAP, HTTP
, FTP as transports.
>
> Thanks.
> -Gilles.



I would like to send email messages within the boundries of a
private network and not the outside world. The SMTP protocol is not
used, instead we have an Exchange server to process mail.

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Hello Darin,

Exchange has the option of listening on the SMTP protocol, and accepting
messages for sending to other folks both within your organization and to the
outside world.  As your exchange administrator if this option is turned on
in your environment, and if so, what is the name of the Exchange/SMTP
"server" that your code can use.

This is far and away the most common way of sending e-mail within an
organization that uses Exchange.

If you really really really really want to take the hard road, you could
submit messages directly to Exchange using WebDAV.

Hope this helps,
--- Nick

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> Gilles@online.microsoft.com (Gilles [MSFT]) wrote in message
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>
>
>
>     I would like to send email messages within the boundries of a
> private network and not the outside world. The SMTP protocol is not
> used, instead we have an Exchange server to process mail.

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