Configuring Tomcat mail
The application sometimes sends emails to users, for example when the users have been subscribed to a document or folder.
By default tomcat mail is configured assuming your server has a mail service binding in your localhost.
This is the default value in the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml file.
<Resource auth="Container" name="mail/OpenKM" type="javax.mail.Session"
mail.from="testing@openkm.com" mail.smtp.host="localhost" />Change mail configuration
Get your mail account data ( same than you will use to configure standard mail client, like Outlook or Thunderbird ).
Edit the file $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml:
vim /home/openkm/tomcat/conf/server.xml
After editing the server.xml should looks something like this:
<Resource name="mail/OpenKM" type="javax.mail.Session"
mail.transport.protocol="smtp"
mail.smtp.auth="true"
mail.smtp.host="your smtp server"
mail.smtp.user="<username>"
password="<password>"
mail.port="25"
mail.debug="true"/>Gmail example
<Resource name="mail/OpenKM" auth="Container" type="javax.mail.Session"
mail.transport.protocol="smtp"
mail.smtp.auth="true"
mail.smtp.host="smtp.gmail.com"
mail.smtp.port="465"
mail.smtp.user="<username>"
password="<password>"
mail.from="<sender email>"
mail.smtp.quitwait="false"
mail.smtp.starttls.enable="true"
mail.smtp.socketFactory.class="javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory"
mail.debug="true"/>Office 365
<Resource name="mail/OpenKM" auth="Container" type="javax.mail.Session"
mail.transport.protocol="smtp"
mail.smtp.starttls.enable="true"
mail.smtp.auth="true"
mail.smtp.host="smtp.office365.com"
mail.smtp.port="587"
mail.smtp.user="<username>"
mail.from="<username>"
password="<password>"
mail.debug="true" />Additional information
Optionally, you can use these attributes :
- mail.user="<username>"
If you get problems during tomcat startup, can try using the attribute mail.smtp.quitwait="false".
A complete list of all available parameters can be found at sun.mail.smtp package Javadoc and javax.mail package Javadoc.