Email Notification in Replication Manager 5.0.2 Set Up Issue

Yes, we have such problem, too.
We installed RM5+SP2 on 4 nodes Exchange 2003 cluster, the RM currently can't report error by sending email. This is a big problem of RM5, hope EMC will solve it ASAP.

Hi all,

Are you aware of Windows-based software which can transmit emails on Windows without having to install IIS or some other SMTP program first?
Please list some examples.


I suggest that you submit an enhancement request by following the instructions in EMC Knowledgebase solution emc97086.


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thanks
James.

James,
In the Windows sys admin world blat is a common tool for smtp. www.blat.net It is a command line tool that can be scripted.

Aran

Hi Aran

I probably didnt clarify my question properly - I meant a software application which performs functions/jobs, etc on Windows which can natively send SMTP emails without using an SMTP engine like IIS, or a stand-alone SMTP mailer

James.

Guys,

Our Information Risk office will not allow for IIS/SMTP to be installed on any non-email servers. I wanted RM notifications for I did the following to utilize Blat.

1. Got Blat from www.blat.net
2, "Installed" blat on my server using:
blat -install mailhost.yours.com emailgroup@yours.com
3. Created a batch file that loops through all files in a folder and passes them onto blat as a variable.
4. Created a batch file to use Blat with the file name list from the above script.
5. Created a batch file to cleanup the directory where the files are placed.
6. Scheduled the first script to run every 30 minutes.
7. Scheduled the clean script to run every 30 minutes, 1 minute after the first script.

Below are the contents on my script files. Also, if RM was installed with IIS installed you may have to create a couple of registry keys for RM to know to put the files in the directory. See Primus emc85379 for more information.

First Script:
blatrmemail.bat

@echo off
REM ****************************************************************************
REM Script: blatrmemail.bat
REM Date: 8/31/2007
REM Version: 1.0
REM Author: Lee Neel
REM Usage: blatrmemail.bat
REM
REM
REM Description: Script to sent Replication Manager emails.
REM Requires rmemail.bat to be in the same directory as this script file.
REM
REM
REM Version: 1.0 Initial Script 8/31/07
REM
REM ****************************************************************************
REM ################# Program Variables #################
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b *.tmp1') do rmemail.bat %%a

Second Script:
rmemail.bat

@echo off
REM ****************************************************************************
REM Script: rmemail.bat
REM Date: 8/31/2007
REM Version: 1.0
REM Author: Lee Neel
REM Usage: rmemail.bat
REM
REM
REM Description: Blat script to sent Replication Manager emails.
REM
REM
REM
REM Version: 1.0 Initial Script 8/31/07
REM
REM ****************************************************************************
REM ################# Program Variables #################
blat %1 -to group@yours.com

Clean up script:
cleanup.bat

@echo off
REM ****************************************************************************
REM Script: cleanup.bat
REM Date: 8/31/2007
REM Version: 1.0
REM Author: Lee Neel
REM Usage: cleanup.bat
REM
REM
REM Description: Script to delete Replication Manager emails that were just sent.
REM
REM
REM
REM Version: 1.0 Initial Script 8/31/07
REM
REM ****************************************************************************
REM ################# Program Variables #################
del *.tmp1 -y