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Monday, December 05, 2011

Plan outgoing email in SharePoint Foundation 2010

Outgoing e-mail is the foundation on which site administrators can implement several e-mail notification features. These features help end users track changes and updates to individual site collections and allow site administrators to deliver status messages.
This article helps site administrators understand both the uses for integrating outgoing e-mail and the requirements for integrating it into their site collections.
In this article:
About outgoing e-mail
Key planning phases of outgoing e-mail
About outgoing e-mail Properly configuring outgoing e-mail is a requirement for implementing e-mail alerts and notifications. The outgoing e-mail feature uses an outbound Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service to relay e-mail alerts and notifications. These e-mail features include the following: Alerts In a large and growing site collection, users need an efficient way to keep up with updates to lists, libraries, and discussions. Setting up alerts provides an effective means to stay on top of changes. For example, if many users work on the same document, the owner of the document can set up alerts to be notified whenever there are changes to this document. Users can specify which areas of the site collection or which documents they want to track and decide how often they want to receive alerts.
Note:
Users must have at least View permissions to set up alerts.

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