Yes, I've verified again that commenting out the mail.server.username and mail.server.password in dspace.cfg and then restarting Tomcat fixes it. For some reason reloading the context via Tomcat admin didn't work...
For now I'll have to remember to comment that line out after deployment, or look into using authenticated SMTP. Alan On 05/23/2013 12:54 PM, Alan Orth wrote: > Helix, > > Correct; if I comment out the mail.server.username and > mail.server.password in the generated / "final" dspace.cfg sending > email works. Also, I was mistaken before regarding `dspace > test-email`, it behaves the same way as the emails from the "Forgot > Password" etc; I had previously stated that these were working > regardless, but I was wrong. > > This is probably a corner case for people using un-authenticated SMTP > I guess... Ironically, I've been yelling at our ISP to enable > authentication for years ;) > > Alan > > On 05/23/2013 12:34 PM, helix84 wrote: >> OK, here's how I understood it: if you comment out >> mail.server.username and mail.server.password, it works, but if you >> leave them empty, it doesn't work (presumably because it sends empty >> values). >> >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If I comment out the mail.* settings in my production.properties >>> file I get >>> an error about circular definitions: >> Yes, unfortunately, this is a known limitation of the Maven filtering >> process as documented here: >> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Configuration#Configuration-Thebuild.propertiesConfigurationPropertiesFile >> >> >> >> >> I guess the the only solution we can provide in DSpace is not to send >> username and password if they're both empty. >> >> >> The relevant code is here: >> https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-3.1/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/core/Email.java#L265 >> >> >> >> It seems to me the code should behave the same (username == null) >> regardless of whether mail.server.username is commented out or has an >> empty value. But I would need to verify this. >> >> >> Regards, >> ~~helix84 >> >> Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette >> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette > -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
