Mail Task Failure

[frog]

I'm using the web interface activity-app, version 1.6.3

However, when I do a mail task, it always fails, and the error log is like this:

Caused by: org.apache.commons.mail.EmailException: Sending the email to the following server failed : localhost:25

at org.apache.commons.mail.Email.sendMimeMessage(Email.java:1421)

at org.apache.commons.mail.Email.send(Email.java:1448)

at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.behavior.MailActivityBehavior.execute(MailActivityBehavior.java:102)

... 168 more

Caused by: com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: localhost, 25; timeout 60000;

  nested exception is:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)

at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:2118)

at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:712)

at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:366)

at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:246)

at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:195)

at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:254)

at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:124)

at org.apache.commons.mail.Email.sendMimeMessage(Email.java:1411)

... 170 more

Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)

at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)

at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)

at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)

at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)

at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)

at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)

at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:329)

at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:238)

at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:2084)

... 177 more

Can anyone give me a walk through of how to solve this problem??

Thanks!

[cjose]

Do you have an email server running on your localhost on port 25? If not, you will need to configure your properties file as explained in Email Server configuration | Alfresco Documentation.

This thread has got some working examples in it. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ciju

[cjose · Accepted solution]

Also, since you are using 1.6.3 you will need an additional property (given below) in your activiti-app.properties file, for the out of the box email templates to work.

spring.freemarker.template-loader-path=classpath:/email-templates