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Vikash Patel
Vikash Patel

Reputation: 1346

how to upload Files to Alfresco via Email?

I wanted to upload files via email in Alfresco. I am using alfresco community 5.2 I have added inbound email properties in alfresco-global.properties file and i have followed all the steps and I sent an email as explained in below links But I am not able to receive any files in my alfresco

I have referred the links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p17GkHsLdmc

http://keytocontent.blogspot.in/2010/05/upload-files-to-alfresco-via-email.html

Steps I have followed 1. set the properties in global properties

email.inbound.enabled=true
email.server.enabled=true
email.server.port=25
email.server.domain=vikash-laptop.com
email.inbound.unknownUser=anonymous
email.server.allowed.senders=.*
  1. created a user named as hello1 email id=> [email protected] added this user into EMAIL_Contributors group
  2. Created a site named as test site created a folder in Document Library>>Dropoff and applied aspect email aliasable added alias properties as dropoff so the my email address will be [email protected]

tried to send email to [email protected] and [email protected] both

Still i am not receiving any files which i have attached in email.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 853

Answers (2)

Vikash Patel
Vikash Patel

Reputation: 1346

I have downloaded smtp mail sender and it is working. and now i am able to receive email attachments in alfresco.

Upvotes: 0

Jeff R.
Jeff R.

Reputation: 188

How did you try and send an email to vikash-laptop.com? You need to make sure the host name you are specifying (vikash-laptop.com) is going to resolve to the IP address of your alfresco server (I assume running on your laptop).

You also need to make sure that your mail client will resolve that domain correctly and can connect to the alfresco server. For example, if you were going to try and send an email from gmail, that would have problems unless vikash-laptop.com was a registered domain so that the gmail servers could resolve it and access port 25 on that machine from the internet.

If you just want to do a simple test on your laptop without a mail client where alfresco is running you can just telnet to the alfresco host and try and connect to that port (google "test smtp telnet" for a lot of suggestions) and see that it is listening on port 25 as you configured it and that you can send test email.

Upvotes: 5

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