Alfresco setup smtp

Improve this question. Have a look at stackoverflow. Hi TahirMalik, yes I don't think anything else is running on port What do you mean by sendmail? Can you please explain? Hi AndreasSteffan, thanks for the link.

I had already tried without giving the username and password to avoid it being trying to authenticate by default, but that doesn't work either.

Seems you are not using TLS, so try "tcpdump -s 0 -A -i any port 25 and host emailserver. That should give you an idea what exactly is failing. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Make sure that your email id which you are using to send emails is less secure Outbound Email Configuration mail. Improve this answer. The alfresco user is looked-up based on the email address. The current request's user is set and all subsequent processes are run as the authenticated user.

If any type of authentication errors are generated, then the email is rejected. The authentication will also imply that the authenticated user may not have visibility of the target node, in which case the email is also rejected.

Effectively, the target recipient of the email doesn't exist - at least not for the sender. Add the following somewhere in your Tomcat configuration. Note: This methodology explains how to create a self-signed certificate only.

SSL vendors can provide certificates signed by an authority and may be more suitable for production use. If the configuration of the subsystem needs to be overidden to add custom message handlers, then copy InboundSMTP-context. If there are any values in the list then all sender email addresses must match. For example:. The list of blocked senders has priority over the allowed senders.

If the sender email address matches this then the message will be rejected. This is how practically everyone will run alfresco. I am trying to configure smtp for organisational mail in alfresco 4. Here is my global configuration mail. Here is org. MailSendException: Mail server connection failed; nested exception is javax. SocketException: Network is unreachable: connect. Failed messages: javax. SocketException: Network is unreachable: connect; message exception details 1 are: Failed message 1: javax.

Improve this question. Can you connect from the server that runs Alfresco? Could you have a firewall in place which allows your user to connect to SMTP, but not the user Alfresco runs as? Gagravarr I am running telnet command from the machine in which alfresco is installed.

I am able to connect and alfresco is running from my user name only — samnaction. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Andreas Steffan Andreas Steffan 5, 2 2 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges.