Direct Mailer Service Account

The account assigned to the Direct Mailer service must have access to the Direct Mailer database.

The following security permissions are involved in running the Direct Mailer service:

  • Permission to start the Direct Mailer service. This is a Windows domain permission.
  • Permission to start and use the List Manager service. This is a Windows domain permission.

The Direct Mailer service account requires the following permissions when Commerce Server is configured to use Windows Authentication.

Table name Direct Mailer service account
Direct Mailer database db_owner role
Campaigns database db_owner role
dml_attachments
Select
Insert
Update
dml_job_errors
Select
Insert
Update
dml_jobs
Select
Insert
Update
ML_<GUID>
Select
Insert
Update

In addition, the Direct Mailer service must have Write permissions (ACLs) on the following files:

dml_drop
Winnt\system32\logfiles folders

Write permissions are required on these files so Direct Mailer can create and write to a log file, and send mails (it requires permissions to the drop location).

See Also

Securing the Direct Mailer Database

Securing the Campaigns Database

Using Direct Mailer and Windows Authentication

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