PostOffice Relay

The PostOffice Relay is an email transport method in which email is registered in the Rational® ClearQuest® database, which prevents loss of email messages.

This transport type is implemented by using the Rational ClearQuest EmailRelay service. With the PostOffice Relay, email messages are stored in the Rational ClearQuest database. Therefore, they cannot be lost even if the relay service goes offline. When the relay service restarts, the service resumes where it stopped, and delivers all the outstanding emails.

This illustration depicts how EmailRelay in PostOffice Relay mode is architected.

The Rational ClearQuest Web server communicate with the Rational ClearQuest EmailRelay server using PostOffice Relay. The Rational ClearQuest Web client communicates to the Rational ClearQuest Web server through a browser. The EmailRelay sever communicates through the optional firewall to the email server.