Hello everyone, the ISIM virtual
appliance is been around for quite sometime now. IBM has enhanced ISIM and made
developer's life much easier. On the other hand, some people might claim that
it has killed the learning for those who just started their career
in IBM Security Solutions as now developers don't have to create the messaging
and application clusters manually and above all, no WAS (Web Sphere Application
Server).
While configuring ISIM VA base version 7.0.0 for the first time,
when setup prompts for SMTP server details as shown below, we used to pass
dummy details as move on as these kind of details are pending with customer in
a production environment and we can modify it any time so for the sake of
installation we used to do so.
Now the setup won’t let you move forward until it finds a valid
SMTP server at the address you provide. There are two hacks to this:
1)
If internet is enabled on the virtual appliance then you can
simply type: smtp.gmail.com the google mail
server.
2)
If internet is not enabled, then you can use dummy SMTP servers (smtp4dev)
available on internet to dodge the setup. Just run the exe file of SMTP server
on a network machine and provide the IP addre ss of that machine in the SMTP
server Address.
SMTP4dev is a good option not only
to dodge the setup, but also to check and test the emails from ISIM. It has options
which are not available on most of the fake SMTP server on the internet: It has
the maximum session option, you can choose the network interfaces attached to
your machine to choose on which interface the server should operate and you can
manually configure the port, if any other program such as SMSC is using port
25.
It can be downloaded from: https://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/
Best regards,
M Danial Arshad
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