Tutorials > Use WebSphere Commerce > Conduct an e-mail campaign
Configure e-mail activities
In this section we will act as the Site Administrator and configure WebSphere Commerce to send out e-mail messages. The Site Administrator usually chooses an off-peak hour to send out e-mail every day. For our purposes, we will configure e-mail to be sent out 10 to 15 minutes from now so we can actually see this process happen. This configuration is usually done once and seldom changed.
Procedure
- Log in to WebSphere Administration Console.
- Select the ConsumerDirect store and click OK.
- Select Configuration > Email Activities.
- Type the following values:
- Name
- Outbound Email Activity
- Description
- Outbound Email Activity
- Host
- wc60
- E-mail address
- info@ConsumerDirect.com
- Account
- wcsadmin
- Commerce Host
- localhost
- Time to start delivery
- Set this to 10 or 15 minutes in the future.
You must be able to finish step 7 by the time this time elapses.
- Click the Inbound Account tab
- Enter the following values:
- Name
- Inbound Email Activity
- Description
- Inbound Email Activity
- Host
- wc60
- E-mail address
- info@ConsumerDirect.com
- Account
- wcsadmin
- Password
- wcsadmin1
- Commerce Host
- localhost
- Select
- Retry soft bounces from e-mail activities
- Interval
- 1:00
- Click OK.