Configuring mail
The application sometimes sends emails to users, for example, when the users have subscribed to a document or folder.
By default, Tomcat mail is configured assuming your server has a mail service binding on your localhost.
These are the default values:
spring.mail.host=localhost
spring.mail.port=25
spring.mail.username=
spring.mail.password=
spring.mail.from=noreply@openkm.com
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.auth=false
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=false
Change mail configuration
Get your mail account data (the same as you would use to configure a standard mail client, like Outlook or Thunderbird).
Edit the file $TOMCAT_HOME/openkm.properties:
vim /home/openkm/tomcat-8.5.69/openkm.properties
After editing, the openkm.properties file should look something like this:
spring.mail.host=localhost
spring.mail.port=25
spring.mail.username=
spring.mail.password=
spring.mail.from=noreply@openkm.com
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.auth=false
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=false
Gmail example
spring.mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
spring.mail.port=587
spring.mail.username=<username>
spring.mail.password=<password>
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.auth=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.ssl.trust=smtp.gmail.com
spring.mail.properties.mail.debug=true
Office 365
spring.mail.host=smtp.office365.com
spring.mail.username=<username>
spring.mail.password=<password>
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.auth=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.ssl.trust=smtp.office365.com
spring.mail.properties.mail.debug=true
Email server with old SSL configuration
spring.mail.host=mail.myserver.com
spring.mail.port=465
spring.mail.username=<username>
spring.mail.password=<password>
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.auth=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.ssl.enable=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.debug=true
Additional information
Optionally, you can use these attributes:
- spring.mail.user="<username>"
Be careful with spring.mail.test-connection because when enabled, if the mail server connection test fails, OpenKM won't start:
- spring.mail.test-connection=true
If you get problems during Tomcat startup, you can try using the attribute spring.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.
Note that depending on the SMTP server configuration, only the address configured in spring.mail.smtp.user may be able to send messages, which means the user who appears in the "From" mail header.