SAPConnect Best Practice

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Mike,
Sounds like you want SAPMAPI - that's a bit more than SAPConnect.
 
SAPConnect just handles mails - e.g. if you had a
SELFITEM.SENDTASKDESCRIPTION
task you could send to an internet address (address type U).
 
SAPMAPI takes whole inbox and puts it out to Outlook (or Lotus Notes).
This can be done on the client level (i.e. outlook on PC collects R/3
mailbox items)
or server level (i.e. items sent directly to microsoft exchange server).
 
Big topic - suggest you talk to your local SAP office.  Lots of
functionality but
not as simple as SAPConnect to implement.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
SAP Australia
Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Tel: +61 412 390 267
Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Mathieson [mailto:msmathieson at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 4 October 2000 6:58 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: SAPConnect Best Practice
 
 
The basis guy is trying to configure SAPConnect.  He has it so you can send
to an external internet address from within SAP, but items (SAP mail and
workflow) sent from inside SAP to an SAP address still go to the SAP Inbox.
I told him I didn't think it should be configured this way, as I want all
messages to go to Outlook, so we never have to go into the SAP Inbox.
 
1.  Can SAPConnect be configured this way, and if so what are we missing?
 
2.  Is the approach I have recommended a "best practice".
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