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Outscaling the Mailer service

You can install the Mailer service on a separate machine to improve performance.

Before you begin

You have installed and configured Content Manager Server, Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail on a machine.

Outbound E-mail requires a SMTP server to process outgoing e-mails.

About this task

When you install the Mailer service on a separate machine, you need to configure:

  • the database in OutboundEmail.xml so that each system on which the Mailer service is installed reads from a shared database queue (configured when you run the installer)
  • the user running the Mailer service in the service Properties

Procedure

  1. Access the SDL Tridion installation media.
  2. Navigate to the Content Manager\ directory.
  3. Double-click the executable SDLTridion2013SP1CM.exe.
  4. In the features to install screen, switch to the Advanced view and select the following options:Audience Manager > Outbound E-mail > Mailer Service.
  5. Click Next and follow the instructions to complete the installation.
  6. Configure the user that is used to run the Mailer service:
    1. Open Component Services.
    2. Stop the Tridion Outbound Email Mailer service.
    3. Select Tridion Outbound Email Mailer and choose Properties in the context menu:
    4. In the Log On menu, select This account and click Browse and choose your MTSUser account, for example amsdev\MTSUser.
    5. Select a user and click OK (twice):
    6. Restart the Tridion Outbound Email Mailer service.
  7. Optional: Disable the Tridion Outbound Email Mailer running on your Content Manager Server so that you now have one Mailer service running on a separate machine.