Email server redux

[paul_jacobs]

I asked this question several days ago:

Where do I configure an email server to forward email out of Alfresco?
I'm playing with 1.4 Comm/Ent or 2.0 Pre Comm all JBoss…

This seems pretty basic and yet only one person responded.  Am I missing something in the docs somewhere?

[heckle]

Hey paul. I hope to have the mail setup tommorow. If it works I will let know.

By the way, what email service are you trying to use this with? Are you hosting your own?

[alexander]

There is a section in repository.properties:

# Email configuration
mail.host=
mail.port=25
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=

You can edit it here, or create override file custom-repository.properties with your settings in extensions folder (usually under tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco)

More info at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/E-mail_Configuration

[paul_jacobs]

Thanks for the reply.

I've done exactly this and it doesn't appear to work.  The overridden mail host never appears to be read by the software.

There is a section in repository.properties:

# Email configuration
mail.host=
mail.port=25
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=

You can edit it here, or create override file custom-repository.properties with your settings in extensions folder (usually under tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco)

More info at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/E-mail_Configuration

[heckle]

According to the documentation, alfresco cannot use a secured smtp connection. The answer, in my case, was to install a local mta (postfix). Works like a charm. I don't know what you can do if you use window or if you don't have to option to install an mta on the server….