Problems setting up simple outgoing e-mail

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm trying to set up outgoing emails on my ECC5 system. So far I have done the following:

1. In SCOT, have set up SMTP node to point to our company email server, specifying port, setting node to "in use", setting everything according to instructions.

2. In SCOT, have set up job to send regularly.

3. In RZ10, have set icman properties correctly.

4. Have opened the port on our server (25).

When I try to send a mail, however, I get message XS 751 "Message cannot currently be transferred to node SMTP due to connection error".

The long text mentions something about an RFC connection. This kind of makes sense...do I need to set up an RFC connection between my R/3 system and my mail server?

Thanks!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Tristan,

Your SAP side configurations sound fine.

Many mail server admins keep a tight control over mail servers for spamming reasons.

There may be certain things you can check with your mail admins:

1. Have they specified non default port (other than 25) for mail server?

2. Is there any firewall between SAP server and mail server that blocks the port via which SAP mails are forwarded?

3. Has mail admin disabled anonymous access and allows only authenticated access on mail server within your LAN.

Check on these and see if there is anything on mail server side that blocks.

Regards,

Praveen

[former_member622691]

Does default domain depends on the Capital or small letter.

[Former Member]

Hi Tristan,

Could you check with the team responsible for your mail server if anything needs to be setup in the mail server configuration to allow your SAP server to relay messages to it ?

Gary

[Former Member]

Hi Tristan,

In transaction SCOT, have you set the default domain via menu option Settings->Default Domain ? I've had problems in the past if this has not been set to your company domain name.

Regards,

Gary

[Former Member]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for the advice, points awared. That domain was, indeed, incorrectly set (I'm working on an IDES system and it was pointing to an SAP domain).

I've now set that correctly, but am still getting the same error.

Is there anything special I need to do on the mail server to get this working?

One thing I don't understand is that nowhere do you specify a username/ password for connecting to the mail server. That surely can't be right as, if so, anyone could potentially use our mail server if they just knew the address for it.

Cheers,

Tristan

[athavanraja]

have you seen this weblog.

/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/09/08/sending-e-mail-from-abap--version-610-and-higher--bcs-interface

its got detailed instruction about configuration (and also relevant oss note numbers) and the code for sending email as well

Raja

[Former Member]

Hi Raja,

That's a helpful answer, points awarded, but I've looked through that paper and I'm already doing exactly what it suggests but I'm still getting the error message.

Has anyone had this same problem?

Do I need to do anything special to our mail server to get it to accept the passthrough of the email from SAP?

Thanks!