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Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

heislord5 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:09:05 GMT

Hi,I have been trying tirelessly to get this working. I've tried dozens of different configurations in the core-services-content.xml file. Does ANYONE have email working with Gmail SMTP in Alfresco 3! Not 2.1.Anyone? I think it just doesn't work. I've tried a number of configurations that have

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

heislord5 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:10:19 GMT

also SMTP from gmail works from Email client (Thunderbird) on same computer

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

heislord5 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:12:22 GMT

I've probably spent over 15 hours working on this on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! If anyone can help please do.

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

heislord5 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:06:16 GMT

Ok.

It appears quite a few of my emails went through. Grrr, lol. Grrr. (Isn't that the expression you'd expect from someone trying to get this stuff to work).

The emails were actually sent from my gmail account and when I logged into gmail they were in my sent folder.

None of them made it out of the sent folder to the destination account. Neither did any of them report any undeliverable messages. This is very strange to me, probably because I do not know a whole lot about the email spam filters these services may have. I tried sending email to myself.

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

heislord5 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:16:38 GMT

email received when sent from gmail to my hotmail account.

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

heislord5 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:49:00 GMT

working settings:

    <bean id="mailService" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
        <property name="host">
            <value>${mail.host}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="port">
            <value>${mail.port}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="protocol">
            <value>${mail.protocol}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="username">
            <value>${mail.username}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="password">
            <value>${mail.password}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="defaultEncoding">
            <value>${mail.encoding}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="javaMailProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="mail.smtps.auth">${mail.smtps.auth}</prop>
                <prop key="mail.smtps.starttls.enable">${mail.smtps.starttls.enable}</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>
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# Email configuration
mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.protocol=smtps
mail.username=user@gmail.com
mail.password=password
mail.smtps.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtps.auth=true
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Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

bnice — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:25:52 GMT

Hi,

is that configuration working in the final version, too?
I'm also struggling with that email-issue (independent of provider). Are there just these two files to be configured?

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

parveenh — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:11:51 GMT

Hi I am trying send mail to alfresco repository, I have mail called abc@optimum-outsourcing.com, i want to comfigure this email to alfresco repository, I am using 3.0.0 version of alfresco,
I can send mail from alfresco to my mail, but when I am sending mail from my outlook to that id, nothing is happening, can anyone help me to configure this..

Thanks

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

bnice — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:19:57 GMT

Hi,

I'm not using this feature (to send mails to alfresco), but I stumbled over it, when trying to configure Aflresco for sending mail.
I think you have to configure the Alfresco mail-server. There is a file called custom-email-server.sample.zip in /tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension.
You'll have to unzip it and configure the contained file for your needs. I think you'll find some more information about that in this forum.

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

spillai — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:22:18 GMT

Hey All,

The following configurations in repository.properties and some changes in the core-services-context.xml worked for me.

Set the following properties in repository.properties
mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=587
mail.username=yourid@gmail.com
mail.password=yourpassword
# 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=test

# Extra properties added by me
mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtp.auth=true
mail.smtp.debug=true

Now in the file core-services-context.xml for the MAIL SERVICE section for bean id="mailService"
add a new property as –
<property name="javaMailProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="mail.smtp.auth">${mail.smtp.auth}</prop>
                <prop key="mail.smtp.starttls.enable">${mail.smtp.starttls.enable}</prop>
      <prop key="mail.smtp.debug">${mail.smtp.debug}</prop>
            </props>
</property>

Can any one share the properties to be set for inbound mail settings?
Will appreciate that.

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

bnice — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:07:42 GMT

Hi spilai,

I'll check your configuration for my needs and let you know if it works for me.
Thanks for your reply.

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

bnice — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:49:24 GMT

Just tested these settings - I get no error with that, but seems like Alfresco is not sending invitations.
Where can I see some more debug on that?

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

mac_src — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:16:23 GMT

Hi,
I am working with Alresco 4.0 and was trying to setup the e-mail. Please follow the most authentic page(https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27566) for it first and if you still face issue then you can try with the following required files and modifications.
Modified files are:
1.C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco-global.properties


#######################################
####### Sample Gmail settings  ########
#######################################
### E-mail site invitation setting ###
#notification.email.siteinvite=false ### Original
notification.email.siteinvite=true

#Mail Setup
mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.protocol=smtps
mail.username=xxxxxx@gmail.com
mail.password=xxxxxxxxxx   #please note that you need to get site specific password from your gmail account
mail.encoding=UTF-8

#### New Properties ####
mail.smtps.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtps.auth=true

##### Test SMTP setup
mail.testmessage.send=true
mail.testmessage.to=xxxxxx@live.com
mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP
mail.testmessage.text=The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working.
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2.C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\subsystems\email\OutboundSMTP\outboundSMTP.properties (Use the same default settings)


<bean id="mailService" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
        <property name="host">
            <value>${mail.host}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="port">
            <value>${mail.port}</value>
        </property>
      <property name="protocol">
         <value>${mail.protocol}</value>
      </property>

        <property name="username">
            <value>${mail.username}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="password">
            <value>${mail.password}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="defaultEncoding">
            <value>${mail.encoding}</value>
        </property>
      <property name="javaMailProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="mail.smtp.auth">${mail.smtp.auth}</prop>
            <prop key="mail.smtp.debug">${mail.smtp.debug}</prop>
            <prop key="mail.smtp.timeout">${mail.smtp.timeout}</prop>
            <prop key="mail.smtp.starttls.enable">${mail.smtp.starttls.enable}</prop>
            
            <prop key="mail.smtps.auth">${mail.smtps.auth}</prop>
            <prop key="mail.smtps.starttls.enable">${mail.smtps.starttls.enable}</prop>
        </props>
    </property>

    </bean>
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3.C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\custom-email-context.properties
( ##You need to create and edit this file)


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>
<!–                        –>
<!– MAIL SERVICE           –>
<!–                        –>

<bean id="mailService" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
    <property name="host">
        <value>${mail.host}</value>
    </property>
    <property name="port">
        <value>${mail.port}</value>
    </property>
    <property name="protocol">
        <value>${mail.protocol}</value>
    </property>
    <property name="username">
        <value>${mail.username}</value>
    </property>
    <property name="password">
        <value>${mail.password}</value>
    </property>
    <property name="defaultEncoding">
        <value>${mail.encoding}</value>
    </property>
    <property name="javaMailProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="mail.smtps.auth">${mail.smtps.auth}</prop>
            <prop key="mail.smtps.starttls.enable">${mail.smtps.starttls.enable}</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>
</beans>
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Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

bnice — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:46 GMT

So there's release 4.0? Ooops, last time I checked updates, it was 3.4d…
Thanks for replying on that issue, most probably it' would cause troubles again when updating…

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

wabson — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:01:07 GMT

See this post for information on 4.0, where the XML config should not be needed.

https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=36053&p=121730#p121434

Cheers,
Will

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

msftarav — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:38:10 GMT

Hello mac_src

I am using Alfresco 3.2 and I tried to do all what you have mentioned, but i still couldn't succeed. The error message that i got is:

Caused by: java.net.UnKnownHostException: smtp.gmail.com
                 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
                 at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
                 at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
                 …….
               . …….

can someone guide me through this?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!!

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

msftarav — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:43:34 GMT

Hello ppl,

I am using Alfresco Share 3.2 and I am trying to activate the e-mail notification. I have tried all the solutions mentioned in this thread and still couldn't get it done.

I couldn't find the E-mail folder inside subsystem when I tried doing what mac_src said.

I also tried to do what spillai has mentioned in the thread and that too dint fix the issue.

Thanks

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

mrogers — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:45:41 GMT

Your first error seems to be Unknown host exception for "smtp.gmail.com".

So can you ping smtp.gmail.com? What's wrong with your infrastructure, have you got a firewall in the way?

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

msftarav — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:00:59 GMT

Your first error seems to be Unknown host exception for "smtp.gmail.com".

So can you ping smtp.gmail.com? What's wrong with your infrastructure, have you got a firewall in the way?

Thank you for the reply mrogers!! I am able to reach smtp.gmail.com but it has some loss!! We have alfresco share in a virtual machine( ubuntu) inside windows 2008 server. I have opened the port in both windows and ubuntu environment. I actually had tried using yahoo business mail server too. That too dint seem to work.

As per the thread I tried all of them, but what I found odd was that i couldn't find the E-mail folder inside the Subsystems folder!! Does this mean something to you?

var\lib\tomcat6\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\subsystems\email\OutboundSMTP\outboundSMTP.properties
The highlighted part was not there!!

Re: Email - Alfresco with Gmail SMTP

mrogers — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:12:54 GMT

Yes that is a concern. However from memory the subsystem framework was new in 3.2 and I can't remember in which release SMTP was refactored to use subsystems. Its possible your version has "old style" configuration which would be custom-email-server.properties.

You should never touch anything below WEB-INF (since its Alfresco's private implementation detail,) you can look but you shouln't change stuff because it will get lost on upgrade..

The first thing to check is that you can connect to your email server (gmail?) from the box that you want to send email from. Use whatever email client you have available. That will validate all the paths and settings needed. Then you can worry about alfresco's configuration.