Tutorial: Configuring Shared Email Connection and Email Notifications with WebCenter Portal (Doc ID 1607793.1)

Last updated on JULY 10, 2023

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Purpose

This document wil show you how to configure Shared Email Connection and Email Notifications with WebCenter Portal.

When you Configure Shared Email Connection you configure WebCenter to use a shared eamil account that will be used to send emails and notifications.
Some advantages of this configuration include:

• Users do not need to specify credentials when sending mails with WebCenter Portal Mail Service.
   
• When having many members you can reach a limit of the "Mailto" filed.
  This limit varies based on the  browser used, so WebCenter Portal has a hard limit of 256 characters (or 15 members).
  So using shared email exposes a "To All Mail space members" check box that will allow you to send emails to all members of the Portal regardless of the number of members.

Note:

All references to the documentation in this tutorial correspond to 11.1.1.8.0 release.


For previous releases you can find the documentation here:

Oracle Fusion Middleware Documentation

Scope

This document is intended for WebCenter administrators who need to install and configure WebCenter.

This document doesn't replace the formal documentation that can be located here:

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Building Portals with Oracle WebCenter Portal
  11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0)
  48 Adding Mail to a Portal
  48.2.1 Configuring a Shared Mail Connection for a Portal
   
   
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Oracle WebCenter Portal
  11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0)
  11 Sending and Viewing Mail
  11.1 About the Send Mail Feature
   
   
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle WebCenter Portal
  11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0)
  15 Managing Mail
  15.4.2 Registering Mail Servers Using WLST
   
   
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle WebCenter Portal
  11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0)
  19 Managing Subscriptions and Notifications
  19.3 Setting Up Notifications
  19.3.4 Specifying the Notifications Channel Using Fusion Middleware Control

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