No alfresco does not send an email when starting a workflow. However you can define a task at the start of a workflow to send email to say that the workflow has started.
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OutboundSMTP configuration properties The following properties can be configured for the OutboundSMTP subsystem type. You must set the Outbound email configuration for Share invitations to work correctly. If you do not set the email configuration, when you invite a user to a site, the user will not receive the assigned task notification.
mail.host=yourmailhost.com Specifies the name of the SMTP host. mail.port=25 Specifies the port number on which the SMTP service runs (the default is 25). mail.username=username Specifies the user name of the account from which you want email to be sent. mail.password=password Specifies the password for the user name. mail.encoding=UTF-8 Specifies UTF-8 encoding for email. mail.from.default=admin@alfresco.com Specifies the email address from which all email notifications are sent. mail.smtp.auth=false Specifies whether you authorization is required. mail.protocol=smtp Specifies the default protocol to be used for email.
The following properties can be set to define a test message when the subsystem starts.
mail.testmessage.send=false Defines whether or not to send a test message. mail.testmessage.to= Specifies the recipient of the test message. mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP Specifies the message subject of the test message. mail.testmessage.text=Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working. Specifies the message body of the test message.
