Alfresco
Inbound Email Configuration
When
you want your email client send email directly to the alfresco, here
is the inbound alfresco configuration.
Email
client will connect to IMAP and SMTP server of alfresco itself and
then put that email into specified space of alfresco. You know that
alfresco acts as a IMAP and SMTP server as well.
I
am using alfresco 4.2.1 (Lastest version as of now) on my local machine.
Lets
start configure it :
Step
1 :
Best
practice is not to override original alfresco files,
we
will use alfresco-global.properties
file.
location
: <alfresco_home>/tomcat/shared/classes
###
Inbound setting ###
email.inbound.unknownUser=anonymous
email.inbound.enabled=true
email.server.enabled=true
email.server.port=25
email.server.domain=cignexindia.com
email.server.allowed.senders=.*
###IMAP
Configuration###
imap.server.enabled=true
imap.server.port=143
imap.server.host=localhost
###
Outbound Email Configuration ###
mail.host=<your_smtp_server>
mail.port=25
mail.username=
mail.password=
#####
Test SMTP setup ###
mail.testmessage.send=true
mail.testmessage.to=<test_email_to_send>
mail.testmessage.subject=Outbound
SMTP
mail.testmessage.text=The
Outbound SMTP email subsystem is working.
I
am not explaining above properties as it is already mentioned in the
forums/post/wiki.
Step
2 : Creating domain in host file
Open
following file in your window's file system
hosts
location
: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
Add
following entry :
127.0.0.1 cignexindia.com
save
file and close it.
Note
: This domain name can not be anything it should be your system domain only.
Step
3 : Configure Alfresco
Start
Alfresco server and create users
e.g.
Fred (username = fred) email = fred@cignexindia.com
Inbox
(username = inbox) email = inbox@cignexindia.com
admin(username =
admin) email = admin@cignexindia.com
e.g.
After
creating sample users as above, add those users to EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS
group in alfresco.
e.g
Go
to Company Home space, create Folder (Space) named “Inbound”
Apply
Email Alias (Aspect) to it via Run Action
Give
alias as “fred” as per our example.
Fred
is existed user in alfresco.
Note : Email alias you should provide is exactly same as email id of user before "@<domain>"
e.g fred is alias then email id of fred in alfresco is fred@cignexindia.com
e.g fred is alias then email id of fred in alfresco is fred@cignexindia.com
Step
4 : Open Mozilla Thunderbird and Configure it
We
need to enable IMAP and SMTP on thunderbird to work with Inbound.
As
we already activated IMAP and SMTP server in
alfresco-global.properties
file
e.g.
Configure
new Email account <IMAP> in thunderbird,
In
screenshot you can see, we have used user “fred” which is already
there in alfresco and giving domain cignexindia.com as we specified
in alfresco-global.properties
file.
Then
configure local SMTP server, alfresco already act as a SMTP server ,
so we just need to give our local alfresco to point out on 25
port.
You
can configure in thunderbird by following way :
- Open “Account Setting”
- Select “Outgoing server (SMTP)
- Click Add
It
looks like below :
Now
you are configured properly for Inbound on mozilla thunderbird.
You
can see now thunderbird shows alfresco repository in its email client
like below :
Step
5 : Send email from this IMAP account like below
When
you see your email comes in your configured space.
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Ghanshyam Rathod
CIGNEX Datamatics Pvt Ltd.
India
