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Newbie Rule Question

mdo10025 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:55:11 GMT

I am using Alfresco 2.0 Community on Windows 2003 server. I created a rule that will send an email to one user when a document is sent for approval. However, I am seeing the following error:[org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.MailActionExecuter] Failed to send email to nullorg.springframework.mail.Ma

Re: Newbie Rule Question

gavinc — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:46:04 GMT

This indicates that you have either mis-configured the email settings or there isn't an email server on the machine, hence the connection failed message.

Re: Newbie Rule Question

mdo10025 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:43:41 GMT

I have smtp service running on this server. This is what I have in the custom.repository.properties file.

mail.host= mail.pixi.com
mail.port=25
mail.username=ourname@pixi.com
mail.password=ourpassword
mail.header=
mail.from.default=webmaster@ourdomain.com‍‍‍‍‍‍

I tried putting the above info in the repository.properties file but had the same error. Is there something else I'm supposed to set? Thanks.

Re: Newbie Rule Question

gavinc — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:30:59 GMT

It may be that you have a space at the beginning of the host name i.e.

mail.host= mail.pixi.com‍

Try removing the space so it reads:

mail.host=mail.pixi.com‍

or if you are running the email server on the same server you could try 'localhost'.

Re: Newbie Rule Question

mdo10025 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:44:15 GMT

My error: in the properties file, there is no space in the mail.host entry. When you say email server, do you mean whether I run the smtp service on the same server as Alfresco? If not, can you clarify? Many thanks.

Re: Newbie Rule Question

gavinc — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:36:30 GMT

Yes, i meant if the SMTP and Alfresco servers are on the same machine you maybe be able to use 'localhost' as the mail.host entry.