Well, I've answered my own question again - well, thanks to an old post by Sedat in the archive.
I needed to replace the naming-factory.jar in the tomcat-5.5.23\common\lib directory with the naming-factory.jar from the 5.5.17 release because org.apache.naming.factory.MailSessionFactory class is missing from that jar. -Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Jeff O'Donnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: FW: Trouble getting email notification to work Sorry to bombard your inbox - The log ACTUALLY says: CommentServlet:sendEmailNotification - Unable to lookup mail session. Check configuration. NamingException: Could not create resource factory instance -----Original Message----- From: Jeff O'Donnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: FW: Trouble getting email notification to work If it helps at all, I'm getting this in my roller.log file: CommentServlet:sendEmailNotification - Unable to lookup mail session. Check configuration. -Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Jeff O'Donnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Trouble getting email notification to work Hi, I am having trouble getting email to work - won't work for comment notification or for inviting a member to a weblog. I've confirmed the following: Mail.jar and activation.jar were placed in %CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib . I've uncommented the Resource tag in roller.xml and changed the mail.smtp.host attribute. I've uncommented the resource-ref tag at the end of roller/WEB-INF/web.xml. Email notification of comments has been checked on the Roller configuration page and the individual blog page. Let me know if anybody has any other ideas of things I should check or change. Running on Windows XP, Tomcat 5.5.23, and Roller 3.1. Thanks, -Jeff Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it.
