Error Sending notification mail for workflow

[oluwasegzy]

Hello All,

I created a rule on a space in my Home Space that should send accompanying mail to the next participator in my workflow but i got this error when mail is about being sent

segzy ERROR [action.executer.MailActionExecuter] Failed to send email to [vuvu]
org.springframework.mail.MailSendException: Mail server connection failed; nested exception is javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.alfresco.com, port: 25;


Somebody please tell me what am doing wrong…. Is there a configuration i need to adjust?

[cedvr]

Hello,

Yes, it looks like the configuration is set by default to alfresco.

Here are the lines that should be appearing in the "alfresco-global.properties" in your tomcat shared folder:
#
# Outbound Email Configuration
#————-
mail.host=
mail.port=25
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org
mail.smtp.auth=false

And replace accordingly to your server settings….

Hope this helps

[oluwasegzy]

Thanks;

I appreciate ur response, but i didnt even have theses lines in my alfresco-global properties before now and it throws the exception. I have added the lines anyway but i still keep having the same exception.

could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;
  nested exception is:


Could it be the fact am using this port 25, is there any other correct port that can be used?  I am sending this mail to a separate mail server like yahoo, gmail




Have I gotten something wrong during installation

[cedvr]

It is strange that the error message still shows 'localhost'…
It would be helpful if you post your configuration…

Here are the two wiki within alfresco explaining the configuration for emails:
outbound: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Outbound_E-mail_Configuration
inbound: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Inbound_SMTP_Email_Server_Configuration#Inbound_email_service

[oluwasegzy]

Thanks for your support

I finally got it to work. I decided to use gmail smtp server to send the mail and it worked.

I think the problem i was having is that I was using my server IP address instead of using the smtp host for alfresco

This is the configuration i used


mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.protocol=smtps
mail.username=id.segzy@gmail.com
mail.password=genius234
mail.smtps.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtps.auth=true