topic Re: Email server in Alfresco Archive

Email server

paul_jacobs — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:17:59 GMT

Where do I configure an email server to forward email out of Alfresco?I'm playing with 1.4 Comm/Ent or 2.0 Pre Comm all JBoss…

Re: Email server

heckle — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:37:34 GMT

If your using jboss, the configuration file is located at:

<JBOSS_HOME>/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp*alfresco-exp.war/WEB-INF/classes

there is a file named repository.properties in a directory named alfresco here that lists email config options.
The recommended thing to do though is not to change this file, but to copy the
block that pertains to email and create a new file in the extension folder which is in:

<JBOSS_HOME>/server/default/conf

there should also be an alfresco directory here. Create a file with a common sense name like email.properties or along that lines.

I have tried this, but it doesn't alway work. I might be missing a step.

Re: Email server

paul_jacobs — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:18:11 GMT

I tried this to no avail. Is there a place in the logs I can look to see whether the mail host I specify is being picked up? It's trying to send but with localhost so I'm guessing it's not picking it up…

Re: Email server

heckle — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:31:42 GMT

The alfresco.log file will have some info. Unfortunately java apps create really messy logs that are hard to wade through. My logs show that the emails are trying to be sent from localhost instead of the email server i entered. Are you getting the same?

Re: Email server

paul_jacobs — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:56:13 GMT

Yes. I'm getting exactly the same. Then in the console I see the java layer generating an error because of the invalid mail host.

Re: Email server

heckle — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:43:48 GMT

it seems that alfresco cannot connect to secured servers. Perhaps the best thing to do would be to install a local mta, like exim4 or postfix. Thats another adventure though…

Re: Email server

paul_jacobs — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:34:38 GMT

It's not a secure server. The software doesn't seem to find the newly specified email server name.