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Error receiving emails for some email aliases

sebp — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:31:18 GMT

I configured the inbuilt Alfresco SMTP server and it works fine for some Email Aliases and for some it doesn't. If I give a folder the Email Alias 123456 and send an Email to the Alfresco SMTP Server with To: 123456@mycompany.com it works and the Email ends up in the folder with the 123456 alias. If

Re: Error receiving emails for some email aliases

sebp — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Ok, I found the solution. The Email Alias property is tokenized by Lucene. To prevent the property from being tokenized the email server model must be changed. The emailserver:aliasable aspect in emailServerModel.xml must look like this:


<aspect name="emailserver:aliasable">
          <title>Email Alias</title>
          <properties>
              <property name="emailserver:alias">
                  <title>Alias</title>
                  <type>d:text</type>
                  <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                  <index enabled="true">
                      <atomic>true</atomic>
                      <stored>false</stored>
                      <tokenised>false</tokenised>
                  </index>
                  <constraints>
                      <constraint ref="emailserver:alias" />
                  </constraints>
              </property>
          </properties>
      </aspect>
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I'm using Alfresco Community 2.9B_dev labs which is not the latest development version. Maybe smbd. can check if this is still an issue in the current version.

Re: Error receiving emails for some email aliases

_sax — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:04:53 GMT

Thank you for your solution - something I didn't even consider as a cause before!
I followed your path, let the search index rebuilt, changed space aliases, created new folders with aliases, but still to no avail.
We're, too, using 2.9B.

      <aspect name="emailserver:aliasable">
         <title>Email Alias</title>
         <properties>
            <property name="emailserver:alias">
               <title>Alias</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
               <mandatory>false</mandatory>
               <index enabled="false">
                                  <atomic>true</atomic>
                                  <stored>false</stored>
                                  <tokenised>false</tokenised>
               </index>
               <constraints>
                           <constraint ref="emailserver:alias" />
               </constraints>
            </property>
         </properties>
      </aspect>

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Is there something else to consider?

Re: Error receiving emails for some email aliases

sebp — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:59:12 GMT

Hi _sax,

you've set <index enabled="false">. I'm not sure but I think if it is set to false then the email alias is not indexed at all and will therefore not be found by the email server.

Re: Error receiving emails for some email aliases

_sax — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:09:29 GMT

Hi sebp,

thank you very much! That was the point! Now it resolves names like a charm.

Greetings to Dresden!

Re: Error receiving emails for some email aliases

amolchavan — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:07:50 GMT

Hi Seb,

I wonder if just configuring Alfresco's Inbound SMTP server works for inbound emails in Community v 3.3.

I did that but not worked at all - here is my post with the issues I am facing -
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=34785

Here are the values -

email.server.enabled=true
email.server.port=25
email.server.domain=alfresco.com — can we have our company domain here?

email.inbound.enabled=true
email.inbound.unknownUser=anonymous
email.server.allowed.senders=.*
#email.server.blocked.senders=

Just want to know what value to be given for property -
email.server.domain=alfresco.com

Also, as your post mentions aliases like 'Inbox', etc. works for you but in my case it is not.
What could be the issue?

I was thinking to try out Alfresco's built-in Inbound email server for receiving incmoing mails rather trying email Collector.
Please help.

Thanks in advance,
Amol

Re: Error receiving emails for some email aliases

sebp — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:55:29 GMT

Hi Amol,

I've also read your other post. If you send a mail to Alfresco do you get any error messages? If yes, then which?

In addition to setting up the alfresco-global.properties for incoming email you also have to:
1. create a user with an email address
2. add this user to the EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS group
3. give this users write access to the folder that has the Inbox email alias
4. if you send an email to the Alfresco SMTP server use the email address of this user in the emails from field.

Regards
sebp