topic Re: The anonymous email user in Alfresco Archive

The anonymous email user

nimbus58 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:50:53 GMT

Hi all,I have installed Alfresco labs 3.0 on a beast of a machine running Ubuntu 8.0.Everything works fine, the "share" is nice, I can send emails to different spaces and do everything that my 2.1 and 2.9b machines do.But this one will not send emails out!!!I keep getting error messages in alfresco.

Re: The anonymous email user

sbuckle — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:15:47 GMT

Create a group called EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS if you haven't already created it. Once you have done that, create a user with a username of 'anonymous' and name 'Anonymous'. Add that user to the EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS group. That should solve the problem.

Re: The anonymous email user

nimbus58 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:22:51 GMT

Thanks sbuckle,

I created the "anonymous" account and the error message went away only to be replaced by another one.

Failed message 1:
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 554 The email address 'p.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xx' does not reference a valid accessible node.

I am trying to have an email sent to me from a space within my own "My Home". I am the owner, I am in the the "Email_contributor" group, my Email address is correct but no messages is leaving the system.

I never had the problem with previous versions and my config is the same. I am stuck!

Re: The anonymous email user

sbuckle — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:09:50 GMT

Have you added the "Email Alias" aspect to the space? "View details" -> "Run action" -> "Add aspect to item". Select the "Email Alias" aspect. Edit the details of the space and set the alias field to the email address you want to use. Try that.

Re: The anonymous email user

nimbus58 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:47:17 GMT

I have added the Email alias and I can send an email into the space.
What it does not do is send an email out with a notification or an invite.

Each time I try to send an email out I have the same error:

Failed message 1:
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 554 The email address 'p.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xx' does not reference a valid accessible node.

Re: The anonymous email user

nimbus58 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:17:37 GMT

SOLVED:

Wrong config in custom.repository.properties

:mrgreen:

Re: The anonymous email user

sbuckle — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:40:55 GMT

What was the config change you made to your custom.repository.properties file?

Re: The anonymous email user

nimbus58 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:44:46 GMT

I added the following in custom.repository.properties - (tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/)

mail.host='address of my email server'
mail.port=25
mail.username='valid account username'
mail.password='valid account password'
# Set this value to UTF-8 or similar for encoding of email messages as required
mail.encoding=UTF-8
# Set this value to 7bit or similar for Asian encoding of email headers as required
mail.header=
mail.from.default=xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.net‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I had tried with the repository.properties and that did not work.