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Chapter 9 Email Transport : Email Overview

Email Overview
TIBCO BusinessConnect provides the ability to communicate with trading partners using email.
The TIBCO BusinessConnect Email transport can be used to send or receive messages from email clients.
The TIBCO BusinessConnect Email transport has the following features:
The following options are available for the TIBCO BusinessConnect Email transport:
Authentication  Supported through digital signatures.
Security  Supported through message encryption.
Non-repudiation  Supported through digital signatures and email receipts.
Compression  Supported through the compression before signing.
Message Compression
For large messages, compression is highly recommended. Do not use compression on smaller messages, since this might create a compressed message that is larger than the original.
Compression is always performed before signing (if it is also applied). When outbound messages are compressed, files are in GZIP file format. For inbound messages which are compressed, files are decompressed automatically.
Attachments
TIBCO BusinessConnect Email transport supports the sending of documents as attachments. When the option Send Data as Attachment is selected, the outbound document will be sent in a multipart/mixed MIME message as follows:
When using TIBCO BusinessConnect Email transport, it is also possible to include other attachments with the outbound document whether the main document is sent as an attachment or not. These attachments are included as additional body parts to the outbound MIME message.
The body parts of all attachments will contain a Content Disposition header with a type of “attachment”.
When an email message containing attachments is signed, the entire multipart/mixed MIME message is signed. Likewise, when an email message containing attachments is encrypted, the entire multipart/mixed MIME message is encrypted.
Content Disposition Filename
Some TIBCO BusinessConnect protocols provide the ability for the private process to specify a filename to be used as the value of the filename parameter in the Content Disposition MIME header of outgoing MIME messages, including the messages sent using the TIBCO BusinessConnect Email transport. The filename can be specified for the Content Disposition header associated with the main document and/or any attachments.
The TIBCO BusinessConnect protocols that support specifying the filename value for the Content Disposition header will also pass the value of the filename parameter from the Content Disposition header of inbound email messages to the private process.
See the User’s Guide of the respective TIBCO BusinessConnect protocol to verify whether it supports passing of the Content Disposition header filename to/from the private process.
Email Client Limitations
The following limitations exist:
Configuring Email transport involves configuration tasks in the trading host and trading partner.
Identifying the Sender and Receiver
TIBCO BusinessConnect Email transport uses standard To and From email addresses as defined in SMTP standard (RFC 2821). These email addresses must be defined in the Valid Email Address List field in the BusinessConnect > Participants > Participant_Name > Protocols > Protocol_Name > General tab. When email is received from the mail server:
The To address is matched against the email address entered in the host’s Valid Email Address List
The From address is matched against the trading partner’s Valid Email Address List

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