Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

658 Part VII: Information Management in SharePoint Products and Technologies
Using the Command Line to Configure E-Mail Settings for Windows
SharePoint Services
You can also configure e-mail settings from the command line by using the e-mail
operation with Stsadm.exe. The e-mail operation takes the following required
parameters: outsmtpserver (the out-going SMTP server), fromaddress (the e-mail
address to send messages from; can be an unmonitored address), replytoaddress
(the e-mail address to send replies to; must be a monitored address), and codepage
(the codepage to use). In addition, you can use the optional url parameter to specify
settings for a particular virtual server.
Note The valid codepages are listed on the Configure Default E-mail
Server Settings page in SharePoint Central Administration, in the Character
set box. To specify a codepage on the command line, use the number for
the character set, rather than the full name. For example, use the number
65001 to specify the codepage for 65001 (Unicode UTF-8).
The e-mail operation uses the following syntax:
stsadm.exe -o e-mail -outsmtpserver
-fromaddress -replytoaddress
-codepage [-url ]
For example, to configure the e-mail settings to use the server \\SMTPServer,
and to use someone@example.com as both the from and the reply-to address, you
would use syntax similar to the following:
stsadm.exe -o e-mail -outsmtpserver SMTPServer
-fromaddress someone@example.com
-replytoaddress someone@example.com
-codepage 65001
To set the http://myserver virtual server to use codepage 65001, you would use syntax
similar to the following:
stsadm.exe -o e-mail -outsmtpserver SMTPServer
-fromaddress someone@example.com -replytoaddress someone@example.com
-codepage 65001 -url http://server_name
SharePoint Site Alerts
SharePoint sites include an alerts feature comparable to the portal site alert mechanism.
The SharePoint site alerts feature is an e-mail notification service. When users
who have signed up for alerts create, modify, or delete documents, lists, or items on
a server running Windows SharePoint Services, they receive messages informing
them of these changes. Users can create alerts to track lists, list items, document