Re: Configuring Tomcat for mail with multiblog?

Thanks David,

Mail now works for my blogs. Here is what ended up working
for me:

1) Upgraded to Tomcat 6.0.14.
2) Upgraded to JDK1.6
3) Deployed mail.jar at Tomcat6/lib/mail.jar.
(Activation.jar (JAF)  
is in place by default in JDK1.6.)
4) Made sure the resource at the bottom of the
Pebble/WEB-INF/web.xml  
was uncommented. (where it says "uncomment this if you
would like to  
use a JNDI-based JavaMail" )
5) Created Pebble/META-INF/context.xml with the following
information:

	<Host name="localhost"
appBase="webapps/pebble"
	unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
	xmlValidation="false"
xmlNamespaceAware="false">
	<Context path="" docBase=".">

		<Resource name="mail/Session"
auth="Container"
             		type="javax.mail.Session"
            		 mail.smtp.host="localhost"
             		mail.smtp.port="25"
             		mail.smtp.auth="true"
             		mail.smtp.user="username"
             		mail.smtp.password="password"
            		 />

	</Context>
	</Host>
6) Reloaded Tomcat and restarted pebble.
7) Mail now works.

Phew. I still have little real understanding of how to make
Tomcat do  
what I want it to do, but I am slowly learning "when
all else fails,  
read the manual." I am pretty sure that my problems
before were that  
I had really messed something up in Tomcat 5 when I tried to
get mail  
to work with it about 6 months ago. Because I was not
careful to  
backup all the files I had changed, I had to reinstall, and
I figured  
I would upgrade while I was going through the trouble of a
re- 
installation. So, let that be a lesson to me: always back up
mission  
critical files before you modify them. I seem to remember
being told  
that about 10,000 times before, but I guess I still am a
slow  
learner 

Rob

On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:21 AM, David Brown wrote:

> Hello Rob, you say you have confirmed usage of the mail
server:  
> have you tried to telnet to the target SMTPd and
hand-craft a mail  
> message? This would be a very definitive baseline test
for your  
> email connection. HTH.
>
> Rob Rye wrote ..
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am struggling to get things set up so as to send
mail to
>> 'subscribers' and commenters and so forth.
>>
>> I am running:
>>
>> Pebble 2.3.1
>> Tomcat 5.5.20
>> OS: Linux 2.6.9-023stab044.11-enterprise
>> multiblog="true"
>>
>> I have tried the following:
>>
>> I modified Tomcat/conf/context.xml to contain the
following entry
>>
>> <DefaultContext>
>>
>>      <!-- Default set of monitored resources
-->
>>     
<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource&g
t;
>> 	
>>      <!-- Uncomment this to disable session
persistence across Tomcat
>> restarts -->
>>      <!--
>>      <Manager pathname="" />
>>      -->
>>    <Resource name="mail/Session"
auth="Container"
>>              type="javax.mail.Session"
>>              mail.smtp.host="localhost"
>>              mail.smtp.port="25"
>>              mail.smtp.auth="true"
>>              mail.smtp.user="username"
>>             
mail.smtp.password="password"/>
>> </DefaultContext>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------
>>
>>
>> The following is at the bottom of my
Pebble/WEB-INF/web.xml
>>
>>   <!-- uncomment this if you would like to use a
JNDI-based JavaMail
>> Session
>>    -->
>>    <resource-ref>
>>      <description>
>>        Resource reference to a factory for
javax.mail.Session
>>        instances that may be used for sending
e-mail notifications.
>>      </description>
>>     
<res-ref-name>mail/Session</res-ref-name>
>>     
<res-type>javax.mail.Session</res-type>
>>      <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
>>    </resource-ref>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> applicationContext-pebble.xml contains the
following entry:
>>
>>   <!-- the name/IP address of the server through
which e-mail is
>> sent, or a JNDI name starting java:/comp/env
pointing to a
>> preconfigured javax.mail.Session instance -->
>>      <property name="smtpHost"
value="localhost"/>
>>
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> Because I am in multiblog mode, do I need somehow
to point the
>> context to the right location for the individual
blogs? If so, how is
>> this done? I have gone round and round with this,
sometimes changing
>> everything to localhost, sometimes explicitly
calling the host name.
>> I have confirmed that the mail server works - I use
it regularly.
>> However, I confess to having no idea of how to
configure such things.
>> I just use it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>
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