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Configuring a Server for Outgoing Mail

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Configuring your Confluence server to send outgoing mail allows Confluence users to:

To configure Confluence Standalone to send outgoing mail,

  1. Go to the 'Administration Console' and click 'Mail Servers' under 'Configuration' in the left panel. This will list all currently configured SMTP servers.

  2. Click 'Add New SMTP Server' (or edit an existing server)

    • Name: By default, this is set to 'SMTP Server'.
    • From: Enter the email id that will be displayed in the 'from' field for email messages originating from this server.
    • Subject Prefix: Enter a subject prefix, if required.

  3. Configuring the Host Address, Username and Password.

    • Manually enter your 'Host Address', 'Username' and 'Password' details in the form fields displayed (recommended).

      OR

    • Specify the 'JNDI' location of a mail session configured in your application server in the form field displayed.

Troubleshooting

If you experience problems with these configurations, please check that your <Confluence-Install>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib contains only one copy of the following JAR files:

  1. javamail-x.x.x.jar
  2. activation-x.x.x.jar
  3. mail-x.x.x.jar

Ideally, these should be:

  • javamail-1.3.2.jar
  • activation-1.0.2.jar
  • mail-1.3.2.jar

You will then need to move these into the proper directory:

Standalone Version
EAR/WAR Version
RELATED TOPICS
The Mail Queue
Enabling the 'Mail Page' plugin
Configuring a Server for Outgoing Mail

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