SCOT Configuration--for external mail

Hi All,
I am trying to configure SCOT on my solution manager server. and able to send mail inside comapny mail domain but not able to send mail on any external mail domain like yahoo,hotmail.gmail.
we are using MS exchange server for mailing. please advice me if any further setting require on Mail server side.
Thank
Gyan

Hi,
Yes this is because your SMTP email server does allow sending emails to the outsid world.
If you are using SAP WAS 6.10 or above you do not need any extra configuration you need only to follow the following steps:
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/455140
This is because the SMTPplug-in from WAS 6.10 and onwards - supports all SMTP mail gateways and you do not need any SAP Exchange Connector as well to connect to MS Exchange Servers. Please find below the details from SAP as well:
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/122657
if you have followed all the steps as mentioned in sap note 455140 above, please liaise with your M/S Exchange Server administrator so that he can unblock the sending of emails to the outside world as well, if that is permitted.
- Regards, Dibya

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Message was edited by: Carlos Guevara
Message was edited by: Carlos Guevara
Message was edited by: Carlos Guevara

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Thanks a lot for your answer. I have more questions:
As I mentioned before, the Government office will provide a SmartCard reader to the customer: it's "Cryptoflex 16K card from Schlumberger". You can take a look to its features here:
http://www.cryptoflex.com/Products/Cryptoflex_Features/cryptoflex_features.html#
There, you can see the following:
Supported Applications and Platforms
Integrates with PC/SC
Integrates with PKSC#11 >>> (*)
Entrust Ready
Plug & Play with Windows 2000 and Windows XP
Axalto SDK
In the document about Digital Signatures "DigSig_Netweaver_BestPractices_en.doc", you can see the following:
1.2.1 PKCS#7
PKCS#7 stands for Public-Key Cryptography Standard # 7. The PKCS standards are specifications that were developed by RSA Security for secure information exchange using the Internet. PKCS#7 is currently a format established in the market. It describes a wrapper format, meaning that the output format does not correspond to the input format. If, for example, a PKCS#7 signature is attached to a PDF document, the document is then in PKCS#7 format. This format is a binary format, which in turn means that direct display is not very good, and is not suitable for a user. A special tool (viewer) must therefore be used for display. Unfortunately, usable PKCS#7 viewers are not currently available on the market. This format is very suitable for purely automatic processing (without a display component for the user).
SAP offers the PKCS#7 signature on the ABAP platform (as of SAP Basis 4.0B) and on the Java platform (as of SAP Web AS 6.30).
So here are my questions:
1) From above, can you tell me if I'm wrong, or this SmartCard ("Cryptoflex 16K card from Schlumberger") is incompatible with SAP Digital Signature implementation (the Smartcard uses PKCS#11 -see (*) above- and SAP uses PKCS#7)?
2) I didn't find to Schlumberger as a certified partner into the SAP link for Certified Partners for Digital Signatures:
http://www50.sap.com/softwarepartnerdir/products/certify/prod_def.asp?DescID=259&ProdDesc=Digital%20Signatures%2C%20Encryption%20and%20SSF
Does it mean that this partner can't provide SSF compatibility?
3) Can you provide me any kind of documentation in order to understand what are the whole configurations that need to be done from the "basis" side (if questions 1 and 2 are false) in order to configure this arquitecture?
4) Can you explain a little bit how the SAPCRYPTOLIB is used in this context? I mean, should we need it in order to encrypt/decrypt digital signatures/envelopes?
Best Regards, Carlos

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