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Before you begin

Before you begin to set up and use the adapter, you must possess a thorough understanding of business integration concepts, the capabilities, and requirements of the integration development tools and runtime environment that you are going to use, and the mail server environment where you build and use the solution.

To configure and deploy WebSphere Adapter for Email you must understand and be familiar with the following concepts, tools, and tasks:

• The business requirements of the solution you are building.

• The mail server's security and configuration needs.
• Business integration concepts and models, including the SCA programming model.

• The capabilities and requirements of IBM BPM or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. You must know how to configure and administer the host server and how to use the Process Administrative Console to set and modify property definitions, configure connection factories, and manage events.

• The tools and capabilities provided by IBM Integration Designer.

  You must know how to use these tools to create modules, wire and test components, and complete other integration tasks.

Plan for adapter implementation

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