On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Vivek Gupta <viv2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I configured Roller 4.0 for mail settings shown below -
>
> mail.hostname=smtp.gmail.com
> mail.username=admin
> mail.password=admin123
> mail.port=465
>
> On startup the roller logs are showing the exception
>
> WARN  2009-09-15 11:24:40,078 WebloggerStartup:prepare - Failed to setup
> mail provider, continuing anways.
> Reason: ERROR connecting to mail server
> org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.startup.StartupException: ERROR
> connecting to mail server
>  at
>
> org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.MailProvider.<init>(MailProvider.java:99)
> ........
> ........
> javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost,
> port: 25;
>

This indicates it's trying to connect to localhost:25, not the one you have
specified. Are you sure you put roller-custom.properties in the right
location?

Matt


>  nested exception is:
>  java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
>  at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1282)
>  at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:370)
>  at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:275)
>
> I believe this exception occus because Gmail mail server only allows SSL
> connection.
>
> Does anybody aware of any mail server which allows connection without SSL?
> or Is there any document/article available about how to setup mail with SSL
> for Roller 4.0?
>
> I tried but couldn't find any....
>
> Regards,
> Viv
>

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