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IMAP Client Configuration Help Needed

darryl_staflund — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:31:22 GMT

Hi all,I have installed Alfresco Community 3.2 and want to test out its IMAP capabilities. To do this, I have enabled the IMAP protocol server by modifying:/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/imap/default/imap-server.properties‍‍to read as follows:imap.server.enabled=trueimap.server.host=localhost

Re: IMAP Client Configuration Help Needed

darryl_staflund — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:45:35 GMT

I think I messed a step somewhere. Although the IMAP subsystem is up and running, the actual server is disabled as evidenced by the following webscript:


http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/imap/servstatus            // Returns 'disabled'
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I thought the logging information was telling me that the IMAP server was enabled, but I guess the IMAP subsystem can be up and running without it's actually being enabled.

Now to poke around some more.

Darryl

Re: IMAP Client Configuration Help Needed

mikef — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:52:30 GMT

There's a new wiki page available here http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/IMAP describing how to enable IMAP with 3.2 Community.
Note this line:

15:01:39,546 User:System INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'imap' subsystem, ID: [default] complete‍

does not mean the subsystem is enabled and listening, it just means that it's been initialized. If the IMAP server is enabled you should see another entry telling you the hostname and port that the server is listening on e.g.

14:55:30,976 User:System INFO  [repo.imap.AlfrescoImapServer] IMAP service started on host:port myhostname:143‍

I'd also suggest you enable logging during initial testing using log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.imap=debug in log4j.properties.

Re: IMAP Client Configuration Help Needed

darryl_staflund — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:16:28 GMT

Beautiful! I rolled back my previous configuration changes and then followed the steps recommended in the link you provided, and IMAP is up and running. Thanks for your prompt response. Much appreciated 🙂

Darryl