Configuring for E-Mail Delivery

Reporting Services includes an e-mail delivery extension so that you can distribute reports through an existing e-mail server. Before it can be used, you must configure the report server to make e-mail delivery available to your users. Report server e-mail delivery is implemented on Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), and requires a Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) server. The e-mail delivery extension does not provide support for digitally signing or encrypting outgoing mail messages.

The configuration file is an XMLClosedAcronym for Extensible Markup Language. XML is a universal format that uses tags for exchanging structured documents and data on the Internet. document called rsreportserver.config. Below is an example of how it should be set for the e-mail delivery:

<RSEmailDPConfiguration>

<SMTPServer>mail.goldmine.com</SMTPServer>

<SMTPServerPort>25</SMTPServerPort>

<SMTPAccountName>cosmin</SMTPAccountName>

<SMTPConnectionTimeout>30</SMTPConnectionTimeout>

<SMTPServerPickupDirectory></SMTPServerPickupDirectory>

<SMTPUseSSL></SMTPUseSSL>

<SendUsing>2</SendUsing>

<SMTPAuthenticate>0</SMTPAuthenticate>

<From>[email protected]</From>

<EmbeddedRenderFormats>

<RenderingExtension>MHTML</RenderingExtension>

</EmbeddedRenderFormats>

<PrivilegedUserRenderFormats></PrivilegedUserRenderFormats>

<ExcludedRenderFormats>

<RenderingExtension>HTMLOWC</RenderingExtension>

<RenderingExtension>NULL</RenderingExtension>

</ExcludedRenderFormats>

<SendEmailToUserAlias>True</SendEmailToUserAlias>

<DefaultHostName></DefaultHostName>

<PermittedHosts></PermittedHosts>

</RSEmailDPConfiguration>

See the article Configuring a Report Server for E-Mail Delivery at http://msdn.microsoft.com/.