Recent activities emails are not sent anymore

[loopway]

Hi there,

We have an Alfresco 4.2c installation and are very happy with it. Since a few months though the "recent activities" emails are not sent out to the users anymore. After investigations for errors in the alfresco.log file I found faulty entries in our mysql table alf_activity_post which I deleted. Now I don't see any errors anymore in the logfile and "my activities" is again being populated in the dashboard.

Our outbound email configuration seems to be correct as emails for invited users are send out. Sending initial test emails during Alfresco startup works too.

I did add the following entries to the alfresco-global.properties file:

activities.feed.notifier.enabled=true
activities.feed.notifier.repeatIntervalMins=1440

After restarting Alfresco still no emails are send and I can't find any hint/error in the logfiles.

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks, Roman

[scouil]

Hi,

Nothing in the catalina.out either?
And no change occured on your mail server either (http to https, or authentication optional to mandatory authentication, updated your spam filter, etc.)?
Do other emails still work? For example if you invite a user to a site.

[loopway]

Hi Scouil,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately there is nothing in the catalina-daemon.out logfile.
Other emails still do work. Invited users receive their invitation email.
Any other ideas?

[ramalama188]

Hi, I deat with similar issue and couldn't get any help so I found my solution by myself looking into the code.

http://injustfiveminutes.com/2014/01/24/recent-activities-emails-not-being-sent-in-alfresco-4-2-c/

Hope it helps you.

[loopway]

Hi ramalama188,

thanks for your reply and the link. We do not bind a LDAP server and we have not changed any user account data as of lately.

Funny thing is that "recent activity" emails are sent again since a few days. No changes to the server configuration what so ever were made. Oh well, I won't complain if a problem for once solves it self…

If anybody knows how to activate some sort of debug logging for the involved alfresco components I'll be still interested to know how to achieve that. Thanks.