Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides an e-mail address to each Web site it crawls when creating an index. If a problem occurs while crawling (for example, the crawler is hitting the site too much), the administrator of the Web site can contact this address. All portals on the server provide this e-mail address when creating an index. For this reason, the e-mail address for the server farm administrator is typically specified.

Specify a contact e-mail address for search

1. On the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration page, in the Component Configuration section, click Manage the Search Service.
2. On the Manage Search Settings page, in the Search Service Settings section, click Configure account and proxy settings.
3. On the Configure Server Farm Account Settings page, in the Contact E-Mail Address section, type the e-mail address that an external site administrator can contact if problems occur when SharePoint Portal Server crawls the external site.
4. Click OK.