Click Next (with Role-based or Feature-based option selected).
Leave Server Selection pointing to the current WFE server.
Go to Features and select SMTP Server.
In the wizard that pops up, click on Add Features. Make sure that the Include Management Tools checkbox is checked.
Do not select “Automatically Restart”, click Install.
and go to the results.
Click on Close.
Go to Desktop Search and type IIS. You should see the IIS 6.0 Manager. Run as Admin.
Expand SMTP Virtual Server and add New Domain…
Select Alias and click Next.
Enter the address space to match with the Exchange Send connector for this farm.
On F: drive, create Drop folder under this path F:\inetpub\mailroot\<Folder>
Go to the Security on the Drop folder and edit the farm account and add Read & Execute permissions to it, add the WSS_ADMIN_WPG account with Full Control and add WSS_WPG account with "Read & Execute" permissions.
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On the default domain (the one by the machine name), click on Properties and select the Drop folder path.
In the Properties window,
Important: Repeat the process on the other WFE server as well.
Now, you are done with your first step successfully. Let us go to the second step on our configuration.
Central Admin Configurations
- Launch CA http://<CentralAdmin>8888.
- Go to Incoming Email Settings under System Settings.
- Set Enable Sites on this Server to receive an email to ‘Yes’.
- Settings mode to ‘Advanced’.
- Leave use SharePoint Directory Management Service at ‘No’.
- In the Email Server Display Address box, type sharepointmail.<company>.com.
- Email drop folder : F:\inetpub\mailroot\folder.
Summary
Now that you have successfully configured incoming email settings in SMTP and on your SharePoint Central Admin which completes half of your configuration to receive emails to your SharePoint library; it is time to configure your Exchange for Send connector and SharePoint Library settings. I am covering this in the next part of this article series.