Configuring Alfresco to send e-mails

In this recipe, we first see how to configure Alfresco to send e-mails before sending e-mails from Alfresco web client.

Getting started

1. 1. Open the alfresco-global.properties file from \tomcat\shared\classes folder. As you know, this is the file where global properties and settings of Alfresco are stored and managed.

2. 2. Add the following lines of code at the end of the file:

   # Outbound Mail Configurations.
   mail.host=smtp.mydomain.com
   mail.port=25
   mail.username=[e-mail]
   mail.password=mypass
   mail.encoding=UTF-8
   mail.from.default=[e-mail]
   mail.smtp.auth=true
   mail.protocol=smtp
   # Outbound Mail Configurations End.
   

   Note

   These are sample values. You must replace these with actual values as per your SMTP server settings. Details of each of these parameters are described later in this recipe.

3. 3. That's it. No more configurations required. Restart your Tomcat server, Alfresco is now ready to send e-mails.

How to do it...

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