topic Re: cannot change mailsender in Alfresco Archive

cannot change mailsender

cmlgzlc — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:03:02 GMT

Hello,We have alfresco running on Debian, tomcat5.5, mysql. Testing the system I tried to configure the mail sending and create a rule. OK, we got the mail, but sender is: munwar@cignex.com . I could not find the file to configure the sender.Thank you in advance..Another question: Does the system no

Re: cannot change mailsender

davidc — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:57:48 GMT

Which install of Alfresco are you using?

Re: cannot change mailsender

cmlgzlc — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:21:16 GMT

Which install of Alfresco are you using?

Alfresco-community-war-2.1.0

Re: cannot change mailsender

davidc — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:52:16 GMT

config/alfresco/repository.properties:

mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org

Someone on your side must have changed it to munwar@cignex.com.

Re: cannot change mailsender

daniele001 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:57:41 GMT

Hi
I've the opposite problem. I cannt find a way to change the sender from alfresco@alfresco.org.

Same version 2.1 community running on a SuSe Linux server 10.

I found the repository properties in tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/ and not wher you suggested.

I think that the file I modified is the correct one, I've entered there the SMTP server address..

Tnks in advance

Daniele

Re: cannot change mailsender

cmlgzlc — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:51:35 GMT

config/alfresco/repository.properties:

mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org

Someone on your side must have changed it to munwar@cignex.com.

I've tried that, it is still the same

Re: cannot change mailsender

mikef — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:52:12 GMT

The default values in config/alfresco/repository.properties can be overridden using the standard extensions mechanism. Specifics depend on how your particular install is configured, but is typically in <TOMCAT>\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\custom-repository.properties you can put the mail configuration in here. Please note: we recommend that you always override rather than change the standard config to make upgrades easier.

Re: cannot change mailsender

daniele001 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:19:49 GMT

Hi

I've tried to use the suggestion you gave me and thye other guy, but I've still have the same problem.
I think that there should be something that is in a higher level.

I'm using the 2.1.0 Community for Linux (SuSe Enterprise server) but using the download of Alfresco with Tomcat, I assume that in Tomcat should be "softcoded" somewhere "alfresco@alfresco.org"

I'm drilling down Catalina configuration, but at the minute no good news.

The fact that cmlgzlc get messages from a real internal email address (no alfresco@alfresco.org) give me the suggestion that the problem shouldbe in Tomcat….

I think he used the WAR file and not the bundle application like me.

Thanks for your support and suggestions, are really appreciated!!!

Kind regards

Daniele

Re: cannot change mailsender

cmlgzlc — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:36:54 GMT

Hi

I've tried to use the suggestion you gave me and thye other guy, but I've still have the same problem.
I think that there should be something that is in a higher level.

I'm using the 2.1.0 Community for Linux (SuSe Enterprise server) but using the download of Alfresco with Tomcat, I assume that in Tomcat should be "softcoded" somewhere "alfresco@alfresco.org"

I'm drilling down Catalina configuration, but at the minute no good news.

The fact that cmlgzlc get messages from a real internal email address (no alfresco@alfresco.org) give me the suggestion that the problem shouldbe in Tomcat….

I think he used the WAR file and not the bundle application like me.

Thanks for your support and suggestions, are really appreciated!!!

Kind regards

Daniele

I tried another server without installing the 'records management' and then we have alfresco@alfresco.org which I cannot change.

Re: cannot change mailsender

munwar — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:53:01 GMT

Wow. I was searching for certain mail related information and found my name (munwar@cignex.com) being discussed. Interesting !!!

The mail configuration can be (or might have been) configured at 3 possible locations.

1> The default values are in <config>/alfresco/repository.properties file. Typically for tomcat installation, the <config> folder is your_tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco folder.

Check "mail.from.default=" value in this file. It should be alfresco@alfresco.org (which is default).

As David clearly mentioned in his earlier reply. NEVER EDIT THIS FILE.

It is recommended to override the configuration in the extensions so that the future upgrades are not broken.

2> Shared Extensions folder.

See if you have "custom-repository.properties" file in <TOMCAT>\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\ folder. If not, you can create one.

Specify your mail sender configuration here…
mail.from.default = whatever from mail address value.

3> AMP Package Extensions Folder.

If you have installed an AMP package, such as Records Management or a custom one, then it creates a new WAR file and keeps all the custom configurations in the following folder:

<config>/alfresco/extension. For Tomcat, it is "tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\extension" folder.

It is possible that you have "custom-repository.properties" file here. Check the mail.from.default property and update it accordingly.

Hope this helps. Let us know if this solved the problem.

Re: cannot change mailsender

etzapata — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:25:52 GMT

Hi All,

In my custom-repository.properties:

dir.root=d:\alf_data
# Email configuration

mail.host=mail.unionbankph.com
mail.port=25
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=

In my web-client-config-custom.xml:

   <!– Example of overriding the from email address –>
   <config>
      <client>
         <from-email-address>etzapata@unionbankph.com</from-email-address>
         <search-max-results>100</search-max-results>
      </client>
   </config>

The emails are sent but the From is etzapata@unionbankph.com. When the recipient receives the email, I want the From to appear as Alfresco Admin NOT etzapata@unionbankph.com. If I replace the etzapata@unionbankph.com into Alfresco Admin in the web-client-config-custom.xml, the email will not send at all.
Do I need to configure other files?
Thank you very much for any inputs.

EriCtZ

Re: cannot change mailsender

etzapata — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:51:14 GMT

Hello everyone,

I found the reason for the error - it was because of the whitespace in the <from-email-address>Alfresco Admin</from-email-address>. I just change it to Alfresco_Admin and it went fine.

Thank you very much everyone.

EriCtZ

Re: cannot change mailsender

gtichelaar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:47:25 GMT

Dear,

Systeminfo:
-alfresco 2.0.1 / on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 Beta (Tikanga) / jbossas-4.0.4-0.2.rhx

I still try to change the default from email adres setting.
I moved the file : /etc/jbossas/all/alfresco/extension/web-client-config-custom.xml.sample to /etc/jbossas/all/alfresco/extension/web-client-config-custom.xml
and changed : /etc/jbossas/all/alfresco/extension/web-client-config-custom.xml

<!– Example of overriding the from email address –>
   <!–
   <config>
      <client>
         <from-email-address>piet@klaas.com</from-email-address>
         <search-max-results>100</search-max-results>
      </client>
   </config>

After that i restarted jbosass.
But the from email is still alfresco@alfresco.com

I also tried to change the file : /etc/jbossas/all/alfresco/extension/custom-repository.properties
and added the mail.from.default = whatever from mail address value setting.
After that i restarted jbosass.

But still no result.

Any idea ?

Why doesn't alfresco use the email adres of user who sends the mail? This is a setting which can be altered from alfresco itself.

Thanks,

Geert tichelaar

Re: cannot change mailsender

prijke — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:58:47 GMT

Got the same problem Geert…. only I am deploying in Tomcat on FreeBSD, but the behaviour is exaclty the same….

In my case it appears that the custom property files aren't used at all….

Re: cannot change mailsender

prijke — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:44:58 GMT

I think we can stop searching….????
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1763;jsessionid=5473857AC42B81366361F40B903A5347?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel

Re: cannot change mailsender

gtichelaar — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:29:42 GMT

Right, thanks..

But it's still strange. There are people with positive results.

Grtz. Geert

Re: cannot change mailsender

g_rathod — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:23:29 GMT

Hi friend,

Hope this little help may solve the problem.

change following files :

1) repository.properties
2) web-client-config-custom.xml
3) webclient_en_US.properties
4) webclient.properties

Search for mail address on given files and replace with yours..
thts it.

HOPe this helps.