[Alfresco 5.0.a] Can't send invitation email but can send the test SMTP mail

[dong_pt]

Dear all,

I tried to follow the setting guide on wiki to set the mail configuration is as below:

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

# Outbound email configuration
mail.host=mail.mydomain.com
mail.port=25
mail.username=none-reply@mydomain.com
mail.password=mypassword
mail.protocol=smtp
mail.smtp.auth=true
mail.from.default=none-reply@mydomain.com
mail.smtp.timeout=30000
mail.smtp.starttls.enable=false
mail.smtp.debug=false

mail.testmessage.send=true
mail.testmessage.to=dong.pt@mydomain.com
mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP
mail.testmessage.text=The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working.

email.inbound.enabled=false

imap.server.enabled=false
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I can receive the testing email when server is starting up to dong.pt@mydomain.com but I can't receive the invitation message when I try to invite to the same email address. The error log is as below:

2014-08-17 05:19:54,152  ERROR [action.executer.MailActionExecuter] [http-bio-8085-exec-1] Failed to send email to dong.pt@mydomain.com
 org.springframework.mail.MailSendException: Failed messages: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 501 5.7.1 <admin@alfresco.com>… Permission denied
;
  nested exception is:
   com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSenderFailedException: 501 5.7.1 <admin@alfresco.com>… Permission denied
; message exception details (1) are:
Failed message 1:
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 501 5.7.1 <admin@alfresco.com>… Permission denied
;
  nested exception is:
   com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSenderFailedException: 501 5.7.1 <admin@alfresco.com>… Permission denied

   at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.issueSendCommand(SMTPTransport.java:2202)
   at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.mailFrom(SMTPTransport.java:1693)
   at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:1194)
   at org.alfresco.repo.mail.AlfrescoJavaMailSender$PooledTransportWrapper.sendMessage(AlfrescoJavaMailSender.java:165)
   at org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl.doSend(JavaMailSenderImpl.java:416)
….
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Please help me to solve this issue.

[dong_pt]

Honestly I tried some ways but still don't know how to make the part of log file appears in my post

[mrogers]

Your email server (mail.mydomain.com) is probably not allowing mail to be sent from a different account although its not reported that error clearly.

So its a permissions thing on your email server - not alfresco.

a) you should probably connect with a real account for username/password.      Connecting as "none-reply" is bonkers!
b) you may need to set mail.from.enabled = false on alfresco if you can't change the config of mail.mydomain.com

[dong_pt]

Hi mrogers,

Thanks for your reply to a fresh guy with Alfresco Community like me All my above email credentials are existing and accessible. I think the main questions here are:

- why Alfresco Community can send the test message but can't send the invitation message to the same account?
- What side raised "Permission deny" error - Alfresco Community or my email server?

Please help.