topic Re: InboundSMTP configuration option? in Alfresco Archive

InboundSMTP configuration option?

sscbrian — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:05:30 GMT

Is there any way to configure InboundSMTP to behave in a SharePoint compatible manner? Our current SharePoint site receives e-mails into a particular folder. Each e-mail received automatically is put into a new sub-folder with the e-mail text and attachment stored (as separate files) in that folde

Re: InboundSMTP configuration option?

mrogers — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:39:04 GMT

The inbound SMTP is supposed to be pluggable. Meaning that how inbound messages are handled can have an implementation class plugged in. It should be a simple enhancement.

Re: InboundSMTP configuration option?

sscbrian — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:35:12 GMT

Can you give me any pointers on where to plug-in? So far all I've uncovered is information about 4.2, which doesn't seem to apply anymore. Apparently InboundSMTP changed quite a bit in 5.0.a. I'm having a really hard time figuring out how to get started.

Re: InboundSMTP configuration option?

hgindl — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:14:48 GMT

i think a good starting point to look for would be to overwrite https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/email/server/handler/FolderEmailMessageHandler.java

kind regards,
Hannes

Re: InboundSMTP configuration option?

mrogers — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:13:00 GMT

That's the class but you should be able to "plug in" your own rather than "overwriting".

Just replace the following spring bean:


    <bean id="folderEmailMessageHandler"
      parent="emailMessageHandlerBase"
      class="org.alfresco.email.server.handler.FolderEmailMessageHandler" >
    
      <property name="overwriteDuplicates">
          <value>${email.handler.folder.overwriteDuplicates}</value>            
        </property>
    </bean>
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Re: InboundSMTP configuration option?

sscbrian — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:15:12 GMT

Well, I'm trying. Been fighting with it the last couple of days, but I'm now out of ideas and stuck.

For testing purposes, I took the original FolderEmailMessageHandler.java and just commented out the addAttachments call. I can compile it successfully and I'm placing it in tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\lib as "company-email.jar". I tried making a simple override InboundSMTP.xml, but could not get it working. Ended up copying the default one and modify the bean as you show (but with the class I used in my compiled folder e-mail handler). I then placed that file (as InboundSMTP-context.xml) in tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension.

I know the XML file is being hit on startup because any errors in it will show up in the log (and break InboundSMTP). One known problem is that I can't get my InboundSMTP-context.xml to use the InboundSMTP properties (neither default, nor one I create and place in extension). So, I had to replace all the <value> variables with hard coded values to get Alfresco to start again.

At this point, Alfresco starts up fine and I receive no more errors, but my code is never called. Folder InboundSMTP still is handled via the default handler. What piece am I missing?

Re: InboundSMTP configuration option?

sscbrian — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:11:06 GMT

Aha! I finally got it! InboundSMTP-context.xml needs to be dropped into tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/email/InboundSMTP/inbound for the override to work!