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Exchange integration w/ Alfresco 4 community

linecrest — Mon, 12 May 2014 20:58:48 GMT

FULL DISCLOSURE: I am not a network admin or developer but am trying to get Alfresco Community edition working to prove its usefulness to be able to justify spending funds on Alfresco One. We currently have MS Active Directory working with Alfresco, but not Exchange. My question is how/what to enter

Re: Exchange integration w/ Alfresco 4 community

afaust — Mon, 12 May 2014 21:24:18 GMT

Hello,

the SMTP integration with Exchange is just for sending out system-generated emails. It typically is not user-specific. It can be unauthenticated or use a system account to authenticate. It never uses any credentials from the end users and as such does not need to store it in any way. Even notification mails as part of a workflow are sent either unauthenticated or using a system account - even if they may be in the name of the current user.

For all SMTP integrations I have done with Exchange, I never had to set mail.username and mail.password.

Regards
Axel

Re: Exchange integration w/ Alfresco 4 community

linecrest — Thu, 15 May 2014 02:18:09 GMT

Thanks! So I need not enter anything for the config file entries below?

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

Is there something else I need to set to make the email of invitations and workflows function?

Thanks!

Re: Exchange integration w/ Alfresco 4 community

kaynezhang — Thu, 15 May 2014 05:21:52 GMT

No,you still need to set these properties,you can set username/password to a system account.
you don't need to set other else

Re: Exchange integration w/ Alfresco 4 community

dlaxtn22 — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:18:00 GMT

Here is a copy of my working config hope this helps.

### Email site invitation setting ###
notification.email.siteinvite=true
mail.host=<internal ip of exchange server>
mail.port=25
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.from.default=alfresco@mydomain.com
mail.from.enabled=false
mail.protocol=smtp
mail.username=<mydomain user>
mail.password=<my domain passwd>

The above config works fine for me the only part I ended up having to check on was to allow internal relay from the ip address of the alfresco server in the exchange settings.
One more thing where mail.host is I specified my exchange server internal ip address