Configure mail service

[antonioparadiso]

Hello community,

I have configured the alfresco-global.properties file so that I can send emails with my email address. After the change I restarted the server. Despite this, the emails go out with the address [email protected]. I paste the configuration made to the alfresco-global.properties file

notification.email.siteinvite=true
mail.host=smtps.exmaple.com
mail.port=465
[email protected]
mail.password=***********
mail.encoding=UTF-8
[email protected]
mail.from.enabled.=true
mail.protocol=smtps
mail.smtp.auth=true
mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtp.timeout=30000

In the above configuration I expect that the emails sent by Alfresco should go out with the address [email protected], but this does not happen. I hope some of you can give me the solution.

Best regards

Antonio

[abhinavmishra14 · Accepted solution]

It should work as long as you have set the properties in alfresco-global.properties file correctly. Refer here: https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/5.2/config/email/#outbound-smtp-configuration-properties

Also make sure you have not overriden those properties via JMX. JMX updates takes preference. 

I also noticed, a "." (dot) character at the end of "mail.from.enabled.=true", It should be "mail.from.enabled=true"

Also be aware that "mail.from.enabled" property has some impacts on how the emails are sent. With this property enabled, system tries to send email based on the user who is trying to invite a user for example. STMP servers doesn't permit impersonating other users. And you may get error like "[email protected]
not allowed to send as [email protected];"

so you must understand the implications of "mail.from.enabled". See here for more info: https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/latest/config/email/#outbound-smtp-configuration-properti...

This config should be enough for outbound emails (based on your inputs):

mail.host=smtps.exmaple.com
mail.port=465
mail.username=[email protected]
mail.password=Password
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.from.default=[email protected]
mail.protocol=smtps
mail.smtp.auth=true
mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true

Here is another sample config list that works locally for me:

mail.host=smtp.office365.com
mail.port=25
mail.username=xxxxxxxxx
mail.password=xxxxxxxxx
mail.encoding=UTF-8
[email protected]
mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtp.auth=true