The anonymous email user

[nimbus58]

Hi all,

I have installed Alfresco labs 3.0 on a beast of a machine running Ubuntu 8.0.
Everything works fine, the "share" is nice, I can send emails to different spaces and do everything that my 2.1 and 2.9b machines do.

But this one will not send emails out!!!

I keep getting error messages in alfresco.log:

"Failed message 1:
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 554 The user 'anonymous' is not in the email contributor group."

I have checked my previous installs and all seems fine but I am "stumped".

I could appreciate a lead or an idea!

Thanks!

[sbuckle]

Create a group called EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS if you haven't already created it. Once you have done that, create a user with a username of 'anonymous' and name 'Anonymous'. Add that user to the EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS group. That should solve the problem.

[nimbus58]

Thanks sbuckle,

I created the "anonymous" account and the error message went away only to be replaced by another one.

Failed message 1:
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 554 The email address 'p.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xx' does not reference a valid accessible node.

I am trying to have an email sent to me from a space within my own "My Home". I am the owner, I am in the the "Email_contributor" group, my Email address is correct but no messages is leaving the system.

I never had the problem with previous versions and my config is the same. I am stuck!

[sbuckle]

Have you added the "Email Alias" aspect to the space? "View details" -> "Run action" -> "Add aspect to item". Select the "Email Alias" aspect. Edit the details of the space and set the alias field to the email address you want to use. Try that.

[nimbus58]

I have added the Email alias and I can send an email into the space.
What it does not do is send an email out with a notification or an invite.

Each time I try to send an email out I have the same error:

Failed message 1:
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 554 The email address 'p.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xx' does not reference a valid accessible node.

[nimbus58]

SOLVED:

Wrong config in custom.repository.properties

:mrgreen:

[sbuckle]

What was the config change you made to your custom.repository.properties file?

[nimbus58]

I added the following in custom.repository.properties - (tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/)

mail.host='address of my email server'
mail.port=25
mail.username='valid account username'
mail.password='valid account password'
# Set this value to UTF-8 or similar for encoding of email messages as required
mail.encoding=UTF-8
# Set this value to 7bit or similar for Asian encoding of email headers as required
mail.header=
mail.from.default=xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.net‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I had tried with the repository.properties and that did not work.