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).
[email protected]
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/%[email protected]%3E
On 07/21/2012 09:18 AM, Dave wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> 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
