changing alfresco@alfresco.org default

[mrudmann]

When I send notifications to users from Alfresco, the "from" address is alfresco@alfresco.org.  I changed the web-client-config.xml file to use a different email and restarted Alfresco.  The default email, alfresco@alfresco.org, is still in the "from" address when notifications are sent to users.

How can I change this?

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

-Matt

p.s. I am running Alfresco 1.4

[flin]

repository.properties
key: mail.from.default

[mrudmann]

I edited repository.properties and added the mail.from.default as suggested:

mail.host=
mail.port=25
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=
# Set this value to UTF-8 or similar for encoding of email messages as required
mail.encoding=UTF-8
# Set this value to 7bit or similar for Asian encoding of email headers as required
mail.header=

mail.from.default=admin@mydomain.com

I restarted Alfresco

I still get alfresco@alfresco.org in the "from" address sent by the notification when I check a document out.

any ideas?

Thanks!

[michaela]

Hi, I have the same problem. I changed the email adresses everywhere I found one, but it didnt help…

[mrudmann]

I don't have it totally understood myself.  It seems to be something that has not been implemented.  I, too, changed it everywher I found it (although I didn't search source code, but why would anyone put it in source, right?).

I will tell you that we got it to work by using rules coded on the space.  For instance, when someone checks a document in or out, there is now a rule and with it, the proper email address.  Our configuration person managed to get this working.

I would suggest you look there to see if you can achieve what you need.

Let me know if you are still having trouble and I will get more specific info from our configurator.

Perhaps you already know this, but start here:
1) go to the space you are working with
2) select More Actions, Manage Content Rules
3) Select Create Rule
4) Select the appropriate condition
5) Select values to add
6) Under Actions, select "send email to specific users"  <– this should help you out.
7) complete the rule and test

Good luck!

-Matt

[bsawler]

Did you remove the <!–  before the script and the –> at the end of the script at the top of the web-client-config-custom file?

Your script should like something like this:

<!– Example of overriding the from email address –>
  
   <config>
      <client>
         <from-email-address>f5o5doccontrol@fso5doccontrol.com</from-email-address>
         <search-max-results>50</search-max-results>
      </client>
   </config>

[jps]

Hi,

I followed all of the steps above, but I wasn't able to manage thi issue. Did anyone achive to solve this matter?

Thanks.

[jps]

Feedback

You have to delete old rules and create new ones. Otherwise they use the old address.

[aurelien2]

wow thank you…. i am stuck since 2h on this issue… this should be better documented

why is the from email adress hard-coded into alerts??

[lakshmi]

I have many spaces and I have configured for the spaces rules to Send Email .Later I decide to change the 'from address' in web-client-config-custom.xml then i will have to delete and recreate the rules.
this seems tedious isint it?

I tested in Alfresco EE 2.2.0…the issue remains….

Has this issue not been solved in Alfresco ?