E-mailEnabling Sakai to both send and receive email requires setting a number of properties in sakai.properties. For sending mail Sakai requires the address (name or IP) of an external SMTP server that will accept mail from Sakai:
smtp@org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=some.smtp.org
To enable Sakai to receive mail you'll need to set the following properties:
# dns addresses used for incoming email smtp.dns.1 = 255.255.255.1 smtp.dns.2 = 255.255.255.2 # SMTP port on which our SMTP server runs. Default is 25. #Recommend running on 8025, and using a standard mailer on 25 to forward mail to Sakai. smtp.port = 25 # flag to enable or disable our SMTP server for incoming email (true | false) smtp.enabled = true # email address used as the "from" address for any email sent by Worksite Setup tool or Site Info tool. # Recipients may not receive notifications if this address isn't valid. #setup.request=address@somedomain
To disable the SMTP server for incoming email, set smtp.enabled=false in sakai.properties:
smtp.enabled=false
Sakai's SMTP server is Apache James. Utilizing the above configuration to run James on the standard SMTP port 25 requires admin privileges. Most admins won't permit Tomcat to run with the above permissions and would rather run a standard mailer like Postfix on port 25 and configure it to forward requests to Sakai. You may also already have a mailer service running on port 25 (Linux usually has it running by default) and so you will want to change the James port port in order to avoid a conflict. For example:
smtp.port=8025