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IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

oblivian — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:18:06 GMT

System: Ubuntu Server 9.04 - Alfresco 3.2 Community (I installed from partner repository. "apt-get install alfresco-community". Most settings default).Hello,I am trying to get IMAP to work with Alfresco. I have enabled IMAP in /usr/share/tomcat6/shared/classes/alfresco-global.propertiesI followed th

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

dward — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:47:28 GMT

The IMAP service may still be listening on the wrong network adapter. When you ping the server from the machine with the IMAP client, what does its IP address resolve to? Make sure that the IMAP server is listening on the same IP address. 'localhost' may not resolve to the network adapter connected to the outside world so you should probably specify an explicit IP.

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

oblivian — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:23:44 GMT

Hi guys,

Thank you for your replies, but did you read my post?

EDIT: I have also tried different IMAP hostnames: localhost, host.domain.tld, host.local.lan, 0.0.0.0 and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. No luck…
EDIT2: I have also tried to set the IMAP server to listen on an unpriviliged port and use IP-tables to NAT/Redirect. Still nuttin'…

EDIT: I was answering a post no longer present.

I have tried all "listening" options I can think of…

Anyone actually running IMAP on Ubuntu 9.04/Alfresco 3.2 Community, installed from the partner repository and got it to work? It might be something systemwise preventing listening ports below 1024 or something.

Please advice,

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

oblivian — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:30:32 GMT

The IMAP service may still be listening on the wrong network adapter. When you ping the server from the machine with the IMAP client, what does its IP address resolve to? Make sure that the IMAP server is listening on the same IP address. 'localhost' may not resolve to the network adapter connected to the outside world so you should probably specify an explicit IP.

00:00:22,054 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.imap.AlfrescoImapServer] IMAP service started on hostort 10.70.10.20:143.

Well, according the enclosed log in my original post the server listens on: 10.70.10.20:143, which is also what I get when ping the host.

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

oblivian — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:26:39 GMT

For diagnostic purposes I setup a virtual Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and installed Alfresco Community 3.2 from the Partner Repository. The whole process took about 10-15 minutes… Anyways, I did this just to have all connections on localhost. …but to no avail. I still can't connect to Alfresco via the IMAP-protocol. (Using Thunderbird).

Is there really no other configs that should be altered except /usr/share/tomcat6/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties?

Oblivian

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

robl — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:35:14 GMT

I had issues as well with IMAP, Ubuntu 9.04, and Alfresco 3.2 from the partner repository. I changed the default port for 8143, restarted, and had to wait a couple of minutes for Alfresco to fully restart and start the IMAP service. After that point, I have been able to connect with IMAP using multiple clients.

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

oblivian — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:44:00 GMT

Thanks, that did the trick. I also opted for port 8143. What is strange is that I tried this earlier, but then on port 10143 which didn't work. Maybe I just didn't waited long enough.
So, the conclusion is that Alfresco can't be runned on ports below 1024. Next is to use iptables to redirect the ports then.

Thanks again! 🙂

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

oblivian — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:03:03 GMT

Well, so I finally was able to connect via IMAP, but the links in the metadata/content links all point to localhost… Where do I fix that issue?

Thanks

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

dward — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:04:50 GMT

Just set web.application.context.url in alfresco-global.properties

web.application.context.url=http://your.host.com:8080/alfresco

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

oblivian — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:52:02 GMT

Did the trick. Thanks!

Re: IMAP not working - Ubuntu 9.04 & Alfresco 3.2

dangruhn — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:46:15 GMT

I also needed to set

imap.server.web.application.context.url=http://your.host.com:8080/alfresco

in alfresco-global.properties

Perhaps this is newer. I am using 3.2r2