Managing Emails

Setting up Outbound Emails

To send outgoing emails from the system, turn on your mail server by editing framework/common/config/general.properties and setting mail.notifications.enabled=Y. You can also configure a special SMTP host, user, and password here.

Processing Inbound Emails

opentaps can listen on one email address of your server. To set this up, edit framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml and set “mail.host”, “mail.user”, “mail.pass” for “javamail-container” to your server. Both IMAP and POP3 are supported for “mail.store.protocol”. If you set “delete-mail” to true, then the messages will be deleted after they are retrieved, even if they do not match any of the MCA conditions. If you set “delete-mail” to false, then messages will be marked “seen.” If you have an IMAP server, then they won’t be downloaded the next time. If you have a POP3 server, however, “seen” is not supported, so if the messages are not deleted, they will be downloaded over and over again. Finally, the "maxSize" property is used to control the largest size of emails received. You should set it to a larger value than the default of 100000 (100 KB).