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Posted to user@roller.apache.org by Glen Mazza <gl...@gmail.com> on 2012/07/21 17:01:21 UTC
Configuring Roller to use GMail SMTP server (Was Re: Activating email
with a Roller installation)
Thanks, I now have Roller trunk successfully deployed to Tomcat using
the Derby database. I'm trying unsuccessfully so far to use my Google
email account for sending comment/moderation notifications. Google may
be more challenging because it uses port 465 (SSL) instead of 25. (I
haven't tried any other SMTP servers.)
I would much prefer the simpler roller-custom.properties instead of JNDI
config, but according to this email[1] from 2009, I need to use JNDI
because Google mail wants SSL for its SMTP server. Is that still the
case? If so I can rule out trying to get config working via
roller-custom.properties:
mail.configurationType=properties
mail.hostname=smtp.googlemail.com (also tried smtp.gmail.com with no
success).
mail.username=glen.mazza@gmail.com
mail.port=465
mail.password=xxxxxxxxx
I can't even get Roller to start if I set the "mail.port" value to 465
(app seems to freeze), and just get the generic "Failed to setup mail
provider, continuing anyways" message in my Roller log if I don't set it.
Trying the JNDI configuration as given in [1] isn't working for me
either, it just silently fails with no message given in roller.log.
Thanks,
Glen
[1]
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-user/200909.mbox/%3CC86899CCB10A6C4E93D5978DCB232D4B0CE394CD@GDCMX01.igglobal.com%3E
On 07/21/2012 09:18 AM, Dave wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Glen Mazza <gm...@talend.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I'd like to install Apache Roller on an Ubuntu Linux desktop machine
>> running Tomcat just to experiment with it. I'd like to enable the emailing
>> feature, where bloggers get an email whenever people leave comments. The
>> Roller installation guide is a little vague in this area: Is there a
>> special mail server I will need to install (Apache James I guess?) to get
>> Roller to send emails or is the emailing capability already built into
>> Roller once I install the activation and mail jars in Tomcat?
> No special mail server is needed. Take a look at Install guide 7.1 and
> 12.2 for details on how to configure mail using either a "properties"
> or "jndi" approach.
>
> - Dave