February 3, 2009
12:04 am
SBS 2008: How to send send email to SharePoint Document Library using Outlook
This post discusses the steps necessary to allow Outlook to send email to the SharePoint 3.0 Document Library (Companyweb). All mail enabled Sharepoint 3.0 document libraries in SBS 2008 are configured with a recipient address using the @companyweb namespace by default. The reason for this is to prevent potential conflicts with existing domain namespaces, thus resulting in the failure of mail delivery. The problem you may face is that if you try to send email to a recipient in this namespace, Outlook will launch a “Check Names” window, informing you that it does not recognize the recipient.
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I would like to share a part of my solution because I wasn't able to find it in the internet.
I was trying to set incoming e-mails into Companyweb in SBS 2008 using many guides from the internet.
Finally I've solved my problem with delivering e-mails through Exchange 2007 into Drop directory.
I have domain "mydomain.local". For sharepoint email contacts I am using domain "mail@servername.mydomain.local". There was problem with storing e-mails into directory "C:\inetpub\mailroot\drop".
It is necesary to create Foreign Connector for domain name "servername.mydomain.local". To set this you have to run Exchange Management Shell with administrator's privileges and use commands:
Get-ForeignConnector | Format-list
New-ForeignConnector
Set-ForeignConnector -DropDirectory C:\inetpub\mailroot\drop
with these commands I have created new Foreign connector for domain "server.mydomain.local" and set drop directory for e-mails where sharepoint look for new e-mail messages.