topic Re: 'From' email field incorrect in Alfresco Archive

'From' email field incorrect

zladuric — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:23:04 GMT

Hello, I'm not exactly sure that this goes to the workflow forum, but I really think so.I have a workflow deployed and on certain transition, I send e-mails from javascript.I always set the mail.parameters.from = "something@mydomain.com" (I put the actual, existing e-mail address here, the same tha

Re: 'From' email field incorrect

sethatrothbury — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:54:00 GMT

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=24164

Sorry, it's a known bug.

Re: 'From' email field incorrect

zladuric — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:01:36 GMT

Thanks, Seth. Is there a JIRA ticket or something?

Re: 'From' email field incorrect

zbennett — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:12:21 GMT

You can vote for this issue in JIRA here: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-459!!!!

Re: 'From' email field incorrect

zladuric — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:15:36 GMT

Oh, thanks. Found a workaround.

Re: 'From' email field incorrect

zbennett — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:19:47 GMT

Can you share your workaround? I'm up against the same issue myself…

Re: 'From' email field incorrect

zladuric — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:21:48 GMT

Oh, we just set alfresco to send mail from the local server.
In custom-repository.properties, we now have:


mail.host=localhost
mail.port=25
mail.username=
mail.password=
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There is still a problem that you can't effectively specify the From field: ie if you put it to something like:
mail.parameters.from = "someone@domain.com";
this parameter will just be checked, but then disregarded. So the mail will end up being sent from the e-mail of the currently logged in person (user).

I remember reading at the time that the other option is to locate this method in the mailer code and correct it, but for now I didn't have the time (or a bigger business need, while we're at it). I don't know where I've read it, though. Could be here at the forum, or maybe at stack overflow.