Setting up email

[nwbill]

I'm looking for very simple documentation on setting up incoming and outgoing email in Alfresco 4.2d. I have installed the product on a Win7 PC, and I'd like to tie it into my client's Exchange server for incoming/outgoing mail. Does anyone know of a how-to or config document that can walk me through the process?

Thanks in advance!

[mitpatoliya]

This would help you

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Outbound_E-mail_Configuration
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Inbound_SMTP_Email_Server_Configuration

[nwbill]

You're right - the links you sent (I'd already seen them) would help - for people who are more technically experienced than I am. While I understand most of the concepts involved in making changes that's listed in your doc links, I think there's a disconnect between the way you guys answer these types of questions, and that person who just came across Alfresco in a Google search for good intranet products, doesn't do these types of setups and configurations routinely, and therefore would need more of a "baby step" type document to work from; especially for a Windows installation.

I'm excited by what Alfresco can do for my company, have already started to set up sites and document folders - but would really like to get the email integration working so that I can send out invites and have staff join me in using this great program! Not every person who downloads and installs Alfresco on Windows is going to be familiar with setting up things like email configurations in order to get that part working (and, WHY doesn't Alfresco just include that portion of the setup in the install routine, anyway???), so …something simpler would be a nice thing to be able to walk through for us neophytes!

[hoksibish]

If you have a windows install simply search for alfresco-global.properties file.  It is typically {repositoryServer}/tomcat/share/classes/alfresco-global.properties  Then open it in an editor and add the following to the bottom:
### Outbound email configuration ###
mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org
mail.host=<the name of your SMTP host>
mail.port=<the port that your SMTP service runs on (the default is 25)>
mail.protocol=smtp
mail.username=<the username of the account you want e-mail to be sent from>
mail.password=<the password>


mail.testmessage.send=true
mail.testmessage.to=<address of your choice>
mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP
mail.testmessage.text=The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working.

be sure to change this to true as well if you want notifacations anyhow.

### E-mail site invitation setting ###
notification.email.siteinvite=true


hope this helps.