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Introducing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace SMTP E-Mail Gateway
See the following sections in this chapter:
•About Cisco Unified MeetingPlace SMTP E-Mail Gateway, page 1-1
•How E-Mail Notification Works, page 1-1
About Cisco Unified MeetingPlace SMTP E-Mail Gateway
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace SMTP E-Mail Gateway is a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace application that you install on a Microsoft Windows server. This application allows Cisco Unified MeetingPlace to use your corporate Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) e-mail server to distribute e-mail notifications to invited participants about meetings that are scheduled by using Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. Cisco Unified MeetingPlace SMTP E-Mail Gateway distributes e-mail notifications when a meeting is scheduled, changes are made, or the meeting is canceled.
The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace SMTP E-Mail Gateway allows you to do the following:
•Distribute e-mail notifications for scheduled, rescheduled, or canceled Cisco Unified MeetingPlace meetings
•Distribute meeting attachments with meeting notifications
•Provide a link in the e-mail notification that users can use to join the audio, data, or video portion of a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace meeting
•Notify the meeting scheduler that consecutive meetings have not been attended or that the term set for scheduled meetings is about to expire
How E-Mail Notification Works
The following is an overview of how Cisco Unified MeetingPlace distributes e-mail notification to users who are invited to attend a meeting:
1.A user schedules a meeting in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace.
2.The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server places a notification of the schedule in a post office box.
3.Cisco Unified MeetingPlace SMTP E-Mail Gateway then completes the following:
Administration Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace SMTP E-Mail Gateway Release 5.4
