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Francis Guchie commented on FINERACT-1070:
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[~vorburger] below is how i configure the ssmtp.config file o my Ubuntu linux
box for the ports 465 and 587 respectively
*BASIC CONFIG FOR Port 465*
[email protected]
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:465
[email protected]
AuthPass=passwordforUser@gmail
UseTLS=YES
*# add this for port 587 but remove it if using port 465*
*# UseSTARTTLS=YES*
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
hostname=full.domain.name
FromLineOverride=YES
*BASIC CONFIG FOR Port 587*
[email protected]
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:465
[email protected]
AuthPass=passwordforUser@gmail
UseTLS=YES
*# add this below for port 587 but comment it out if using port 465*
*UseSTARTTLS=YES*
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
hostname=full.domain.name
FromLineOverride=YES
in my view both Ports need UseTLS = YES to work and a number of servers and
VPS providers have blocked the use of Port 25 (*it has been widely misused*) as
i read from
[https://blog.mailchannels.com/port-25-why-keeping-it-open-is-important#:~:text=For%20more%20than%20a%20decade,send%20huge%20amounts%20of%20spam.]
Port 587 to work one has to set *UseSTARTTLS=YES* yet if you set the same for
port 465 mail will not go (testing from the linux box using the echo command
below)
*echo -e 'Subject: test\n\nTesting ssmtp configs for 465 n 587' | sendmail -v
[[email protected]|mailto:[email protected]]*
So i think the condition in the file should be a nested if condition
if (UseTLS = true)
{
if (using port 465 ) { set *UseSTARTTLS=NO}*
if (using port 587) [set *UseSTARTTLS=YES]*
}
I found the lines below by reading around on the internet
*SSL/TLS (Port 465) -> email.setSSLOnConnect(true);*
Email email = new SimpleEmail();
email.setHostName("smtp.gmail.com");
email.setSmtpPort(465);
email.setAuthenticator(new DefaultAuthenticator("username", "password"));
#email.setSSLOnConnect(true); *NOT RECOMMENDED*
email.setFrom("[email protected]");
email.setSubject("TestMail");
email.setMsg("This is a test mail ... :-)");
email.addTo("[email protected]");
email.send();
*STARTTLS (Port 587) -> email.setStartTLSEnabled(true);*
Email email = new SimpleEmail();
email.setHostName("smtp.gmail.com");
email.setSmtpPort(587);
email.setAuthenticator(new DefaultAuthenticator("username", "password")); NOT
RECOMMENDED
email.setStartTLSEnabled(true);
email.setFrom("[email protected]");
email.setSubject("TestMail");
email.setMsg("This is a test mail ... :-)");
email.addTo("[email protected]");
email.send();
I am thinking we restrict ourselves to ports 465 and 587 and avoid the rest
due to complications
> Email Service Configurations defaults to port 25 irrespective of Port number
> specified
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FINERACT-1070
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-1070
> Project: Apache Fineract
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: User Management
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Reporter: Francis Guchie
> Assignee: Michael Vorburger
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 1.5.0
>
> Attachments: email Service Configurations.png,
> image-2020-10-15-11-17-57-324.png, image-2020-12-02-11-56-01-572.png,
> image-2020-12-12-17-36-26-558.png
>
>
> Even if use sets the following, MifosX will not send emails
> 1- Configure the server on which mifos is installed to be able to send Emails
> - One can do this by installing sSMTP on the server and testing email sending
> on the command line
> 2- if using a gmail address only ports 465 and 587 will work because port 25
> is by default disabled on google servers This includes very many other VPS /
> Mail servers
> 3- Configure the port under the Email External Services Configuration
> one will still get the error below
> 03-Jul-2020 19:59:41.251 SEVERE [https-jsse-nio-443-exec-18]
> com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse.mapMappableContainerException
> The RuntimeException could not be mapped to a response, re-throwing to the
> HTTP container
>
> org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.service.PlatformEmailSendException:
> org.apache.commons.mail.EmailException:
> Sending the email to the following server failed : smtp.gmail.com:25
> at
> org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.service.GmailBackedPlatformEmailService.sendDefinedEmail(GmailBackedPlatformEmailService.java:81)
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