SMTP plugin configuration for receiving email

[Former Member]

Hi,

We're running Sap 4.70 on an Aix unix system. Presently we are using the following profile parameters for SapConnect's SMTP plugin-

icm/plugin_2 = PROT=SMTP,PLG = ./smtpplugin.o

icm/server_port_2 = PROT=SMTP,PORT=25,TIMEOUT=180,HOST=<hostname>,EXTB

IND=1

is/SMTP/virt_host_0 = *:25;

When I run "netstat -a | grep smtp", I get the following-

tcp4 0 0 <hostname>.smtp . LISTEN

When I run "telnet localhost 25", I get the following error-

Trying...

telnet: connect: A remote host refused an attempted connect operation.

I don't have a firewall issue. Any ideas what might be wrong? Am I forced to run sendmail on port 25 and have it forward to the SMTP plugin running on a port >1024? I would really like to bypass using sendmail and run the SMTP plugin directly on the standard SMTP port 25 per OSS Note 421359 (for binding ports <1024).

Thanks in advance,

Steven McElwee, <steven.mcelwee@duke.edu>

[athavanraja]

have you seen this weblog. this may be of help to you.

/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/09/09/receiving-e-mail-and-processing-it-with-abap--version-610-and-higher

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

Thanks for the weblog- it is indeed very useful for processing inbound email. Unfortunately, i am not there yet as it appears that the smtp plugin is not responding correctly as indicated in my original post. I hope to have the Sap support folks to log in our system and take a look. Once that is straightened out, the information you pointed to concerning User Exits should be very helpful.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Sincerely,

Steven Mcelwee