Standard Delivery Protocols

To help you develop and deploy a Notification Services application quickly, Notification Services comes with two standard delivery protocols: SMTP and File.

This section provides information about the standard delivery protocols and values for properties and arguments used when defining delivery protocols for a notification class.

In This Section

Topic Description

File Delivery Protocol

The File delivery protocol, used primarily for testing, writes notification data to a file.

SMTP Delivery Protocol

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) delivery protocol packages and routes notification messages for delivery by an SMTP service, such as that provided by Microsoft Exchange Server.

See Also

Concepts

Developing a Custom Delivery Protocol

Other Resources

Configuring Delivery Protocols
Defining Notification Classes
Defining Notification Services Applications

Help and Information

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