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SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

mathias — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:45:25 GMT

hi there,after reading and searching through wiki&forum, I have to ask the "crowd"…1.) which is the correct file and path for a simple SMTP-outbound email configuration?(starting from C:/alfresco/… on a standard installation)–> following different instructions I changed different files, but w

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

jonash — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:13:09 GMT

Hi Mathias,

Outbound SMTP is configured in $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties. Here's an example:


#
# Outbound Email Configuration
#————-
mail.host=smtp.example.com
mail.port=25
#mail.username=
#mail.password=
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org
mail.smtp.auth=false
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Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

bisana — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:32:03 GMT

how is the email-subsystem restarted to test the changes? or is there an other way, to test the settings?

It gets its new paramter when you restart the service of Alfresco

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

mathias — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:47:50 GMT

Thank you!

I reinstalled Alfresco on two machines - Win7 and Ubuntu,
and added this with my values to the global-properties-file: (nothing else was changed on the standard installation)

# Sample Gmail settings
mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.username=user@gmail.com
mail.password=password

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

mail.testmessage.send=true
mail.testmessage.to=mail@mydomain.com
mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP
mail.testmessage.text=The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working. 
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after restarting the service, an test email is sent.

I set up a site, and invited new members to join: 3 different email-adresses.
–> popout says "invitations sent, 0 errors"

BUT none these emails are delivered to the recipient!
(Tried it with an alternative outbound-email-account as well: Test ok, but no invitations sent)

Any ideas where I could find the error?

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

bisana — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:51:17 GMT

mail.testmessage.to=mail@mydomain.com
mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP
mail.testmessage.text=The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working.

When you restart the service, if you are getting a mail with the subject Outbound SMTP and message as The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working. , then your email notification should be going on

mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.username=user@gmail.com

Does this user has email sending permission
Thanks
Joseph John

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

mathias — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:03:52 GMT

Thank you Joseph,

Do you mean, I have to set up a user in alfresco, who uses the email-adress "user@gmail.com" and who has the right to send emails?

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

bisana — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:29:36 GMT

user in alfresco, who uses the email-adress "user@gmail.com" and who has the right to send emails?

No you dont need to create the user in DM
What I want to say is that that user which you specify in th configuration file should have permission at mail server to send mail

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

mathias — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:38:29 GMT

the "user@gmail.com" is a standard gmail-account which works fine with thunderbird (sending and receiving).

furthermore "user@gmail.com" is the adress of my local alfresco-administrator, who is member of the alfresco-group "EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS".

thank you

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

bisana — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:42:34 GMT

mail.testmessage.to=mail@mydomain.com
mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP
mail.testmessage.text=The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working.

When you restart the service, if you are getting a mail with the subject Outbound SMTP and message as The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working. , then your email notification should be going on

Are you getting email notification in mail@mydomain.com
As I had said, if you get the above result, your email will be working

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

mathias — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:51:32 GMT

yes, test-email works "Outbound SMTP"

but
user1@domain1.com
user2@domain2.com etc.
don't get the emails sent by alfresco…

An other Idea:
Is it enough to invite an external user, or do I have to set up an user in the admin-console first,
and then invite him/her to become a site member?

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

mathias — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:07:04 GMT

this is what happens when I start the server:
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[size=85]2012-06-18 09:56:48,209 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'Replication' subsystem, ID: [Replication, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:48,209 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'Replication' subsystem, ID: [Replication, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:48,255 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'Subscriptions' subsystem, ID: [Subscriptions, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:48,255 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'Subscriptions' subsystem, ID: [Subscriptions, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:48,255 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'googledocs' subsystem, ID: [googledocs, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:48,255 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'googledocs' subsystem, ID: [googledocs, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:48,255 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'email' subsystem, ID: [email, inbound]
2012-06-18 09:56:48,255 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'email' subsystem, ID: [email, inbound]
2012-06-18 09:56:48,255 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'fileServers' subsystem, ID: [fileServers, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,266 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'fileServers' subsystem, ID: [fileServers, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,282 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'ActivitiesFeed' subsystem, ID: [ActivitiesFeed, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,282 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'ActivitiesFeed' subsystem, ID: [ActivitiesFeed, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,282 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'OOoDirect' subsystem, ID: [OOoDirect, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,282 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'OOoDirect' subsystem, ID: [OOoDirect, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,297 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'Synchronization' subsystem, ID: [Synchronization, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,297 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'Synchronization' subsystem, ID: [Synchronization, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,297 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'email' subsystem, ID: [email, outbound]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,297 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'email' subsystem, ID: [email, outbound]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,297 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'imap' subsystem, ID: [imap, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,297 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'imap' subsystem, ID: [imap, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,765 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'Search' subsystem, ID: [Search, managed, solr]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,765 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'Search' subsystem, ID: [Search, managed, solr]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,781 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'thirdparty' subsystem, ID: [thirdparty, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,781 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'thirdparty' subsystem, ID: [thirdparty, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,781 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [Authentication, managed, alfrescoNtlm1]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,797 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [Authentication, managed, alfrescoNtlm1]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,812 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopping 'sysAdmin' subsystem, ID: [sysAdmin, default]
2012-06-18 09:56:51,812 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Stopped 'sysAdmin' subsystem, ID: [sysAdmin, default]
log4j:ERROR LogMananger.repositorySelector was null likely due to error in class reloading, using NOPLoggerRepository.
2012-06-18 09:57:23,168 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'sysAdmin' subsystem, ID: [sysAdmin, default]
2012-06-18 09:57:23,262 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'sysAdmin' subsystem, ID: [sysAdmin, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:34,416 WARN [alfresco.util.AbstractTriggerBean] [Thread-1] Job ehCacheTracerJob is not active/enabled
2012-06-18 09:57:39,080 INFO [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered template processor Repository Template Processor for extension ftl
2012-06-18 09:57:39,080 INFO [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered script processor Repository Script Processor for extension js
2012-06-18 09:57:47,754 INFO [domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] [Thread-1] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect.
2012-06-18 09:57:50,733 INFO [domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] [Thread-1] No changes were made to the schema.
2012-06-18 09:57:51,092 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'Search' subsystem, ID: [Search, managed, solr]
2012-06-18 09:57:51,233 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'Search' subsystem, ID: [Search, managed, solr] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:51,732 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'thirdparty' subsystem, ID: [thirdparty, default]
2012-06-18 09:57:51,935 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'thirdparty' subsystem, ID: [thirdparty, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:51,935 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'OOoDirect' subsystem, ID: [OOoDirect, default]
2012-06-18 09:57:53,604 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'OOoDirect' subsystem, ID: [OOoDirect, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:53,729 INFO [repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] [Thread-1] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: C:\Alfresco\alf_data
2012-06-18 09:57:53,744 INFO [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] [Thread-1] Checking for patches to apply …
2012-06-18 09:57:55,226 INFO [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] [Thread-1] No patches were required.
2012-06-18 09:57:55,242 INFO [repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] [Thread-1] Found 2 module(s).
2012-06-18 09:57:55,336 INFO [repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] [Thread-1] Starting module 'org_alfresco_module_wcmquickstart' version 1.0.
2012-06-18 09:57:55,336 DEBUG [repo.module.ModuleComponentHelper] [Thread-1] Started module 'ModuleDetails[{module.version=1.0, module.description=Web Quick Start, module.id=org_alfresco_module_wcmquickstart, module.repo.version.max=999, module.title=Web Quick Start, module.repo.version.min=3.3, module.installState=INSTALLED, module.installDate=2012-06-17T05:42:36.219+02:00}]' including 0components.
2012-06-18 09:57:55,367 INFO [repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] [Thread-1] Starting module 'org.alfresco.module.vti' version 1.2.
2012-06-18 09:57:55,382 DEBUG [repo.module.ModuleComponentHelper] [Thread-1] Started module 'ModuleDetails[{module.version=1.2, module.description=Alfresco Vti Extension, module.id=org.alfresco.module.vti, module.repo.version.max=999, module.title=Vti, module.repo.version.min=0, module.installState=INSTALLED, module.installDate=2012-06-17T05:42:23.630+02:00}]' including 0components.
2012-06-18 09:57:55,398 DEBUG [repo.module.ModuleComponentHelper] [Thread-1] Installed module found in distribution: org_alfresco_module_wcmquickstart
2012-06-18 09:57:55,398 DEBUG [repo.module.ModuleComponentHelper] [Thread-1] Installed module found in distribution: org.alfresco.module.vti
2012-06-18 09:57:55,398 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'fileServers' subsystem, ID: [fileServers, default]
2012-06-18 09:57:56,303 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [Authentication, managed, alfrescoNtlm1]
2012-06-18 09:57:56,506 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [Authentication, managed, alfrescoNtlm1] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:56,568 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'fileServers' subsystem, ID: [fileServers, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:56,568 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'imap' subsystem, ID: [imap, default]
2012-06-18 09:57:56,646 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'imap' subsystem, ID: [imap, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:56,646 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'email' subsystem, ID: [email, outbound]
2012-06-18 09:57:59,860 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'email' subsystem, ID: [email, outbound] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:59,860 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'email' subsystem, ID: [email, inbound]
2012-06-18 09:57:59,969 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'email' subsystem, ID: [email, inbound] complete
2012-06-18 09:57:59,969 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'googledocs' subsystem, ID: [googledocs, default]
2012-06-18 09:58:00,047 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'googledocs' subsystem, ID: [googledocs, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:58:00,047 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'Subscriptions' subsystem, ID: [Subscriptions, default]
2012-06-18 09:58:00,078 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'Subscriptions' subsystem, ID: [Subscriptions, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:58:00,078 INFO [repo.usage.UserUsageTrackingComponent] [Thread-1] Disabled - clear non-missing user usages …
2012-06-18 09:58:00,109 INFO [repo.usage.UserUsageTrackingComponent] [Thread-1] Found 0 users to clear
2012-06-18 09:58:00,109 INFO [repo.usage.UserUsageTrackingComponent] [Thread-1] … cleared non-missing usages for 0 users
2012-06-18 09:58:00,109 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'Synchronization' subsystem, ID: [Synchronization, default]
2012-06-18 09:58:00,312 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'Synchronization' subsystem, ID: [Synchronization, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:58:00,499 INFO [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] [Thread-1] Alfresco JVM - v1.6.0_22-b04; maximum heap size 910,250MB
2012-06-18 09:58:00,499 INFO [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] [Thread-1] Alfresco started (Community). Current version: 4.0.0 (4003) schema 5.025. Originally installed version: 4.0.0 (4003) schema 5.025.
2012-06-18 09:58:00,499 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'ActivitiesFeed' subsystem, ID: [ActivitiesFeed, default]
2012-06-18 09:58:00,593 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'ActivitiesFeed' subsystem, ID: [ActivitiesFeed, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:58:00,593 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Starting 'Replication' subsystem, ID: [Replication, default]
2012-06-18 09:58:00,655 INFO [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [Thread-1] Startup of 'Replication' subsystem, ID: [Replication, default] complete
2012-06-18 09:58:04,493 INFO [module.vti.VtiServer] [Thread-1] Vti server started successfully on port: 7070
2012-06-18 09:58:04,508 INFO [module.vti.VtiServer] [Thread-1] Vti server SessionIdManagerWorkerName: jetty1
2012-06-18 09:58:17,908 WARN [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [Thread-1] Unable to register script classpath:webscripts/org/springframework/extensions/cmis/content.get.desc.xml due to error: 05180000 Web Script document org/springframework/extensions/cmis/content.get.desc.xml is attempting to define the url '/cmis/content:GET' already defined by org/alfresco/cmis/client/content.get.desc.xml
2012-06-18 09:58:17,908 INFO [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered 477 Web Scripts (+1 failed), 745 URLs
2012-06-18 09:58:17,908 INFO [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered 2 Package Description Documents (+0 failed)
2012-06-18 09:58:17,908 INFO [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered 1 Schema Description Documents (+0 failed)
2012-06-18 09:58:17,908 INFO [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] [Thread-1] Initialised Repository Web Script Container (in 9033.035ms)
2012-06-18 09:58:17,939 INFO [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
2012-06-18 09:58:17,939 INFO [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
2012-06-18 09:58:38,651 INFO [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
2012-06-18 09:58:38,745 INFO [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
2012-06-18 09:58:38,760 INFO [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
2012-06-18 09:58:38,760 INFO [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
2012-06-18 09:58:43,643 INFO [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered 314 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 324 URLs
2012-06-18 09:58:43,643 INFO [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered 8 Package Description Documents (+0 failed)
2012-06-18 09:58:43,643 INFO [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered 0 Schema Description Documents (+0 failed)
2012-06-18 09:58:44,220 INFO [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] [Thread-1] Initialised Spring Surf Container Web Script Container (in 5327.7603ms)
2012-06-18 09:58:44,220 INFO [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
2012-06-18 09:58:44,236 INFO [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [Thread-1] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
09:58:45,234 WARN [org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.util.LocaleUtils] Locale name in faces-config.xml null or empty, setting locale to default locale : de_AT[/size]

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

bisana — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:16:50 GMT

Ur log files does not show any error on mail.
In future please use code tag to post the error messages, it is easy to read and respond

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

mrogers — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:26:37 GMT

There's also a setting to turn on invitations by email.

#Invitation Service
# Should send emails as part of invitation process.
notification.email.siteinvite=true

Assuming that is set and you are not getting errors from sending email the next issue is that gmail is rather aggressive with its spam filtering and you will need to configure another account.

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

mathias — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:20:46 GMT

thank you, that maybe was the missing link…

Problem solved:

1.) new installation (win7)
2.) Googlemail-config from
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Outbound_E-mail_Configuration
in
C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco-global.properties
2a.) parameters in same file changed
### E-mail site invitation setting ###
notification.email.siteinvite=true
3.) Login as admin
4.) create site
5.) inviting external user
–> eMail to user is sent and received

Thank you!

Re: SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

chrispine — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:20:16 GMT

The idea of the emails being enabled was the thing that had me all messed up. The following:

### E-mail site invitation setting ###
notification.email.siteinvite=true

has to be in the config file. No other site mentioned that. Awesome post!!