topic Email outbound in Alfresco Archive

Email outbound

y_j2ee — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:43:50 GMT

HI I want to know if there is a possibility to use email address like myname@localhost without .com or .fr because in alfresco I get an error "The email address is incorrectely formatted "

Re: Email outbound

sselvan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:23:03 GMT

There has to be a .com or .edu or similar to that.
Btw, why would you want to have without the .com?

Re: Email outbound

y_j2ee — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:06:05 GMT

Firstly thank you for your reply, the problem is that we have a domaine : domaine.nameofentreprise so the intranet addresses are nameofemployees@domaine.nameofentreprise, and when i define a rules for trying sending email with ALfresco, we have this message "the adresse email is incorrectly formatted" there is a possibility to skip the validation of adresse email or other solution.
i will be gratful if someone can give me help!!!!!

Re: Email outbound

sselvan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:18:49 GMT

    /**
     * Return true if address has valid format
     * @param address
     * @return
     */
    private boolean validateAddress(String address)
    {
        boolean result = false;
        
        EmailValidator emailValidator = EmailValidator.getInstance();
        if (emailValidator.isValid(address))
        {
            result = true;
        }
        else 
        {
            logger.error("Failed to send email to '" + address + "' as the address is incorrectly formatted" );
        }
      
        return result;
    }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

This code is in MailActionExecuter.java (perhaps .class) in org.alfresco.repo.action.executer package inside alfresco-repository-3.2r2.jar in <ALF_HOME>\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\lib\

There is no way to edit or configure this change directly (Out-of-the-box). You might have to edit this java file, create the JAR file and redeploy the jar file. I wouldn't say that is the best way to do it - but, I will let you figure that out.

Hope this helps!

Re: Email outbound

sselvan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:47:19 GMT

Oh, btw I just realized you are probably in a multi-tenant environment.
I don't know much about it. May be it is issue - you might want to post a jira ticket.

Thank you

Re: Email outbound

y_j2ee — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:30:21 GMT

Hi sselvan I will test your solution , thank you so much

Re: Email outbound

vignesh_sabapat — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:12:34 GMT

Hi sselvan I will test your solution , thank you so much

I got into same issue as mentioned by you and i have done changes suggested by sselvan in this post and its working. Now i can able to send mail using alfresco explorer with localhost or other hostname as my mail address (in my case it is vignesh@vignesh.redhat)

Re: Email outbound

vignesh_sabapat — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:18:06 GMT

I have worked on 3.4. Checked out the source from alfresco svn with revision number correspond to 3.4. Then located the source file MailActionExecuter.java file. And changed

private boolean validateAddress(String address)
    {
        boolean result = false;
       
        EmailValidator emailValidator = EmailValidator.getInstance();
        if (emailValidator.isValid(address))
        {
            result = true;
        }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

private boolean validateAddress(String address)
    {
        boolean result = true;
       
        EmailValidator emailValidator = EmailValidator.getInstance();
        if (emailValidator.isValid(address))
        {
            result = true;
        }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Saved and rebuild the code using ant build. Then copied the result jar from

path/to/checkedout-src/HEAD/root/projects/repository/build/dist/alfresco-repository-3.4.d.jar

replace this jar file in your existing alfresco project and try to send out email

Re: Email outbound

vignesh_sabapat — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:19:24 GMT

updated jar is available here

http://alfresco-mail-novalidation.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/alfresco-repository-3.4.d.jar
http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-mail-novalidation/downloads/detail?name=alfresco-repository-3.4.d.jar&can=2&q=