SMTP Auth Setup for
Forte Agent 1.8

  1. Open Agent 1.8. Choose the Options menu item.
    Select User and system profile.

  2. Click on the System tab.

    Select "Send email messages with SMTP".
    Enter your STMP server in the provided box.
    Click the SMTP Authentication button.

  3. The following dialog box should appear.

    Select "Login with a username and password".
    Put a check in "Use POP username and password".

  4. Press OK, then OK again. Quit out of Agent.
  5. You now need to edit your AGENT.INI file in order to change the port Agent uses for SMTP, from the default 25, to the SMTP authentication port, 587.

  6. Locate the AGENT.INI file on your hard drive (click your Windows "Start" button, select "Find..." and do a search of your C: drive).

  7. Once you've located the AGENT.INI file, make sure Agent is not running, and open the file in a plain text editor such as Notepad (not Wordpad or MS-Word). Make sure the "Word Wrap" feature is turned off in your text editor (in Notepad you can disable it under the "Edit" menu).

  8. Look through the file for the section labelled "[Servers]". In that section, you will see the line,

    SMTPPort=25

    Change the line so that it reads,

    SMTPPort=587

  9. Save your changes and edit your text editor, and you are done. The next time you start up Agent, it will now use the SMTP authentication port.