Hiding the Social Mail username and password from socialmail-discovery-config.xml

It’s been bothering me a while that the username and password for our LDAP user was visible in clear text in our socialmail-discovery-config.xml. After going looking for a solution by using very specific searching I found a solution where you can hide the username and password and – stupid as I am – it’s actually right there in the install docs. Stupid is as stupid does. The solution is to remove the authentication data from the socialmail-discovery-config.xml and replace the <DirectoryUser> and <DirectoryPW> tags with a single <DirectoryAuthAlias> tag. This tag should reference a J2C alias configured in the Websphere ISC. Simple and effective.

The above solution is for Domino only – if you’re using Exchange mail you need two additional tags. For complete instructions on the tags refer to the wiki at Enabling the discovery service for IBM Connections Mail.