topic Re: Error Sending notification mail for workflow in Alfresco Archive

Error Sending notification mail for workflow

oluwasegzy — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:19:08 GMT

Hello All,I created a rule on a space in my Home Space that should send accompanying mail to the next participator in my workflow but i got this error when mail is about being sentsegzy ERROR [action.executer.MailActionExecuter] Failed to send email to [vuvu]org.springframework.mail.MailSendExceptio

Re: Error Sending notification mail for workflow

cedvr — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:41:51 GMT

Hello,

Yes, it looks like the configuration is set by default to alfresco.

Here are the lines that should be appearing in the "alfresco-global.properties" in your tomcat shared folder:
#
# Outbound Email Configuration
#————-
mail.host=
mail.port=25
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org
mail.smtp.auth=false

And replace accordingly to your server settings….

Hope this helps

Re: Error Sending notification mail for workflow

oluwasegzy — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:37:11 GMT

Thanks;

I appreciate ur response, but i didnt even have theses lines in my alfresco-global properties before now and it throws the exception. I have added the lines anyway but i still keep having the same exception.

could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;
nested exception is:

Could it be the fact am using this port 25, is there any other correct port that can be used? I am sending this mail to a separate mail server like yahoo, gmail

Have I gotten something wrong during installation

Re: Error Sending notification mail for workflow

cedvr — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:10:59 GMT

It is strange that the error message still shows 'localhost'…
It would be helpful if you post your configuration…

Here are the two wiki within alfresco explaining the configuration for emails:
outbound: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Outbound_E-mail_Configuration
inbound: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Inbound_SMTP_Email_Server_Configuration#Inbound_email_service

Re: Error Sending notification mail for workflow

oluwasegzy — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:12:13 GMT

Thanks for your support

I finally got it to work. I decided to use gmail smtp server to send the mail and it worked.

I think the problem i was having is that I was using my server IP address instead of using the smtp host for alfresco

This is the configuration i used

mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.protocol=smtps
mail.username=id.segzy@gmail.com
mail.password=genius234
mail.smtps.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtps.auth=true