1. Marketing Installation and Administration Guide
  2. (Optional) Enabling TLS for Communications Between the Email Sending Daemon and the SMTP Server

(Optional) Enabling TLS for Communications Between the Email Sending Daemon and the SMTP Server

If you want to enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) for communications between the Email Sending Daemon (ESD) and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server, then perform the steps in the following procedure.

This task is a step in Roadmap for Configuring Email Marketing Daemons.

To enable TLS for communications between the ESD and the SMTP server

  1. Navigate to the esd.properties file in the ESD_root installation directory.

  2. Open the esd.properties file in a text editor.

  3. Locate the SMTP talker configuration options section in the file.

  4. Set the esd.smtp.starttls property to True.