SMTP Outbound Config Alfresco 4.0

[mathias]

hi there,

after reading and searching through wiki&forum, I have to ask the "crowd"…

1.) which is the correct file and path for a simple SMTP-outbound email configuration?
(starting from C:/alfresco/… on a standard installation)
–> following different instructions I changed different files, but without any effect.

2.) is there a file to be CREATED or CHANGED?

3.) how is the email-subsystem restarted to test the changes? or is there an other way, to test the settings?

thank you!

[jonash]

Hi Mathias,

Outbound SMTP is configured in $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties. Here's an example:

#
# Outbound Email Configuration
#————-
mail.host=smtp.example.com
mail.port=25
#mail.username=
#mail.password=
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org
mail.smtp.auth=false
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[bisana]

how is the email-subsystem restarted to test the changes? or is there an other way, to test the settings?

It gets its new paramter when you restart the service of Alfresco

[mathias]

Thank you!

I reinstalled Alfresco on two machines - Win7 and Ubuntu,
and added this with my values to the global-properties-file: (nothing else was changed on the standard installation)

# Sample Gmail settings
mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.username=user@gmail.com
mail.password=password

# New Properties
mail.protocol=smtps
mail.smtps.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtps.auth=true

mail.testmessage.send=true
mail.testmessage.to=mail@mydomain.com
mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP
mail.testmessage.text=The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working. 
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after restarting the service, an test email is sent.

I set up a site, and invited new members to join: 3 different email-adresses.
–> popout says "invitations sent, 0 errors"

BUT none these emails are delivered to the recipient!
(Tried it with an alternative outbound-email-account as well: Test ok, but no invitations sent)

Any ideas where I could find the error?

[bisana]

Hi

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

When you restart the service, if you are getting a mail  with the subject Outbound SMTP and message as The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working. , then your email notification should be going on

mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.username=user@gmail.com

Does this user has email sending permission
Thanks
Joseph John

[mathias]

Thank you Joseph,

Do you mean, I have to set up a user in alfresco, who uses the email-adress "user@gmail.com" and who has the right to send emails?

[bisana]

user in alfresco, who uses the email-adress "user@gmail.com" and who has the right to send emails?

No you dont need to create the user in DM
What I want to say is that that user which you specify in th configuration file should have permission at mail server to send mail

[mathias]

the "user@gmail.com" is a standard gmail-account which works fine with thunderbird (sending and receiving).

furthermore "user@gmail.com" is the adress of my local alfresco-administrator, who is member of the alfresco-group "EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS".

thank you

[bisana]

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


When you restart the service, if you are getting a mail with the subject Outbound SMTP and message as The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working. , then your email notification should be going on

Are you getting email notification in mail@mydomain.com
As I had said, if you get the above result, your email will be working

[mathias]

yes, test-email works "Outbound SMTP"

but
user1@domain1.com
user2@domain2.com  etc.
don't get the emails sent by alfresco…


An other Idea:
Is it enough to invite an external user, or do I have to set up an user in the admin-console first,
and then invite him/her to become a site member?