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Identifying the Outbound Mail Transfer Agents for the Email Sending Daemon

The Email Sending Daemon (ESD) must have one or more outbound Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) to deliver the email over the Internet. If you specify multiple MTAs, then the ESD uses the additional MTAs as backups. In the esd.properties file, you specify the names of your MTAs. When the ESD starts, it uses the first MTA on the list. When an MTA fails, the ESD uses the next MTA on the list. To use the first MTA again, you must restart the ESD, usually by rebooting the server.

This task is a step in Process of Configuring the Email Sending Daemon.

To identify the outbound Mail Transfer Agent for ESD

1. Determine the hostname of the outbound Mail Transfer Agent.
2. Open the esd.properties file in a text editor such as WordPad (Windows) or vi (UNIX).
3. Locate the string esd.mailServers.
4. In the string esd.mailServers, replace "CHANGE_ME" with the hostname of the outbound Mail Transfer Agent. If there is more than one, then separate them with commas.
5. Save your changes.