setting up the integration between Workflow and Email

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Michael,
Have you looked at program RSWUWFML?  This is a simpler way of sending
email notifications for workitems that avoids the full drama of
setting up Exchange Connector.  If you have a Workplace or
ITS with the webgui/BWSP/BWWI_EXECUTE/etc. services on it then
your workitems are web accessible and you can build hyperlinks
in your emails so that you get the link between email and the workitem.
 
It's another option that should be considered before you make your
final decision.
 
For question
1: SAPOffice (that's the old name for SAP's mail inbox
- there isn't anything called "SAPmail")is now Business Workplace.
2. Yes.
 
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: Michael Sledge [mailto:sledgmb at worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2001 1:55 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: setting up the integration between Workflow and Email
 
 
Hi.  I have not had a great deal of experience with workflow and was hoping
someone could help.  My assignment is to provide the ability to have
Workflow route messages to SAPmail and external (Internet) email.  I've done
quite a bit of research and am left with a few specific questions.  Our R/3
system is version 4.6C running on Sun Solaris/Oracle.  The standard email
system here is Microsoft Exchange.  Now, my questions:
 
1)  In version 4.6C, is "SAPmail" now actually known as the "Business
Workplace", or "Work Center"?
2)  Does Workflow already route messages to this internal SAP message store,
whatever the name, based on SAP username?
3)  What are the differences between the "SAP R/3 Internet Mail Gateway" and
the "SAP R/3 Exchange Connector"?  Are these ever used concurrently, or is
one for a Unix mail system (sendmail, etc) and the other for a Microsoft
mail system (Exchange).
 
If the answers to 1 and 2 are yes, I see my task pretty much as setting up
the SAP R/3 Exchange Connector and configuring SAPconnect.  Would this be a
fair assumption?
 
I appreciate any help you can give,
Regards,
Michael Sledge
sledgmb at worldnet.att.net