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Mailbox MFT Connection Properties

Create a Mailbox MFT Connection to define communications using a mailbox for an MFT Remote endpoint. Informatica Managed File Transfer can connect to mail box servers to retrieve email messages. Both POP-3 and IMAP mail box server types are supported. This is especially useful for processing incoming email attachments. When defining a Mailbox MFT Connection for an Informatica MFT endpoint, you need to indicate the connection properties such as the host name or IP address, user and password.

The following table describes the properties in the

Basic

tab:

Property	Description
Name	Name of the MFT Connection.
Description	Provide a description for the MFT Connection.
Server Type	Indicates if the mail box server type is O365, POP-3, or IMAP. If this field is left blank, then the default server type of POP-3 will be used.
Host	The host name or IP address of the server.
User	The user name to use for connecting to the mailbox server.
Password	The password to use for connecting to the mailbox server.
Is Password Encrypted	Indicates whether or not the password is encrypted. You should choose Yes if you clicked the Encrypt button for the Password.

The following table describes the properties in the

Connection

tab:

Property	Description
Port	The port number to use for connecting to the server. If left blank, the default port number is 25.
Connection Type	The connection type to use when communicating with the SMTP Server. The following options are available: Normal - The connection is not encrypted. SSL - The entire connection and transmission is encrypted using SSL.
Client ID	The unique identification ID assigned to an application which establishes an identity with the Office 365 applications.
Client Secret	The secret key is used to exchange the authorization code to access the token. Include the Client Secret if the application is confidential.
Is Client Secret Encrypted	Indicates whether or not the client secret is encrypted. You should choose Yes if you clicked the Encrypt button for the Client Secret.
Timeout	The number of seconds to wait when attempting to connect to the mail box server. A timeout error will occur if the connection cannot be established in the specified amount of time. If this field is left blank, the default timeout value of 300 seconds will be used.

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