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Gmail E-mail Configuration for newbies

andhaa

Hi,

I am a very new user to Alfresco world and have already fell in love with it. I have installed the latest community version on Windows platform and can access Alfresco via LAN.

I am facing trouble in sending invites for my sites created via Alfresco. When I select a user to send Invite and press Ivite button, Alfresco gives me a message "0 invites sent, 1 failure". I understand that Email settings have to enabled for Invites to start working in Alfresco.

In regards to setting Email, I opted to use GMAIL email account for communication through Alfresco and performed following steps:

1. Step 1: Made changes to alfresco-global.properties on following path: C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes.
2. Step 2: Entered GMAIL SMTP settings in alfresco-global.properties and saved the file (at this time Alfresco Service was stopped), following settings were entered:
   Note: At this point I have not set any Outbound email settings anywhere in Alfresco Config Files.
   # Sample Gmail settings
   mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
   mail.port=465
   mail.username=alfrescodms25@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=alfrescodms25@gmail.com
   mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound SMTP
   mail.testmessage.text=The Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working.

   # Email Site Invitation
   notification.email.siteinvite=true

3. Step 3: Re-started the Alfresco Service and accessed Alfresco Share. It was observed that now Alfresco stopped working properly and was showing internal 500 errors.

4. Step 4: Undo all changes done to alfresco-global.properties on following path: C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes, restarted Alfresco service and accessed Alfresco   Share. It was observed that Alfresco Share was working fine again (without invites working).

I have gone through wiki and forum and due to limitation of my technical knowledge, I would really appreciate if someone guide me to setup Invites in my Alfresco installation.

Thanks & Regards,
Andhaa

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mrogers

Your config looks fine. What were the details of the error you received?

tullo

Try to add this

mail.smtps.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtp.socketFactory.port=465
mail.smtp.socketFactory.class=javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory
mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback=false
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And change mail.testmessage.send to

mail.send.testmessage=true
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zladuric

When restarting alfresco, it tries to send notifications. If your config is wrong, you can sometimes going to get problems like this.

andhaa

Dear Tullo,

Thanks for taking time and replying to my query.

I made changes as per your suggestions in the "alfresco-global.properties" config file and logged in to Alfresco Share and following error was given:

***Failed to Login***

The remote server may be unavailable or your authentication details have not been recognized.

I deleted the settings suggested by you and GMAIl settings and logged into Alfresco Share - Login was successful (no Invites working).

Thanks & Rgds,
Andhaa

andhaa

Dear Mrogers,

Thanks for taking time and replying to my query.

On the Alfresco Share Site following is written:

An error has occured in the Share component:/share/service/components/dashlets/user-calendar.
It responded with a status of 500 - Internal Error.

Error Code Information: 500 - An error inside the HTTP server which prevented if from fulfilling the request.

Error Message: Error during remote call. Status:404 Response