I am using ms- outlook. What are the manditory inputs for this Ant task and how can i find my mailhost and mailport number?
According to the Ant's Mail task documentation, the following information is required:
from attribute or <from> nested element.
tolist, cclist, or bcclist attributes or their equivalent nested elements <to>, <cc>, or <bcc>.
either message or messagefile attribute, alternatively nested <message> element.
If you SMTP server requires authentication, you must provide user and password attributes.
Basically these are required for any mail client.
Mail host and port, the address of an SMTP server, you can get from your system administrator.
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My ant script based on the mail task works fine with mail addresses of the form A#B.C where A,B, and C are strings NOT containing dots, '.' .
Alas, I need it to work with addresses of the form:
A.D#B.C and A#E.B.C
which are in common use today.
<mail mailhost="x.com" mailport="587" tolist="mail#y.z.com" subject="? was updated.">
<from address="mail#cvkimball.com"/>
</mail>
Is this a limitation of the ant mail task?
I failed to provide the SMTP server's user and password attributes.
Since I was testing with an e-mail dress on the same server, the server (apparently) didn't check the user and password and my test succeded.
I am trying to figure out EXM for Sitecore. I installed it and now I am trying to configure it to send emails from my local machine. SAC MTA is not an option because I don't have access to App Center. I am left with custom MTA.
I was trying to configure config files to use gmail smtp:
Sitecore.EDS.Providers.CustomSmtp.config
<smtpSettings type="Sitecore.EDS.Core.Net.Smtp.SmtpSettings, Sitecore.EDS.Core" singleInstance="true">
<server>smtp.gmail.com</server>
<port>465</port>
<userName>*****#gmail.com</userName>
<password>*****</password>
<authenticationMethod>Login</authenticationMethod>
<startTls>true</startTls>
<proxySettings ref="exm/eds/proxySettings" />
</smtpSettings>
Sitecore.EDS.Providers.CustomSmtp.Sync.config
<pop3Settings>
<pop3Setting type="Sitecore.EDS.Core.Net.Pop3.Pop3Settings, Sitecore.EDS.Core" singleInstance="true">
<server>pop.gmail.com</server>
<port>995</port>
<userName>****#gmail.com</userName>
<password>****</password>
<useSsl>true</useSsl>
<startTls>true</startTls>
<proxySettings ref="exm/eds/proxySettings"/>
</pop3Setting>
</pop3Settings>
But when I try to "send quick test" through EXM I get "Failed to connect to the email server. Please try again later". Can anyone help me with that configuration. And is it even possible? I remember reading something about paid license to use custom MTA. Would it mean, that you need to pay to send email via EXM?
To switch from using the Sitecore MTA to using the Custom SMTP, you must disable the Dyn configurations and then enable the CustomSmtp configurations:
In the Website\App_Config\Include\EmailExperience folder, add the suffix .disabled to the end of the following file names:
Sitecore.EDS.Providers.Dyn.config
Sitecore.EDS.Providers.Dyn.Sync.config
In the Website\App_Config\Include\EmailExperience folder, remove the suffix .disabled from the following file names:
Sitecore.EDS.Providers.CustomSmtp.config.disabled
Sitecore.EDS.Providers.CustomSmtp.Sync.config.disabled
I'm trying to send an email using Ansible, but I can't understand how it works as I don't know how to provide user and password for such service (not specified in the documentation).
Both my machine and the email server are in the same network, but I need to be authenticated in order to send the email.
This is my yml file:
---
- name: Testing email
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Send email
local_action: mail
host=mail.server.com
port=993
subject="Ansible test mail"
body="Testing email"
from=my#email
to="y#email
charset=utf8
And this is the related content of the hosts' file:
[localhost]
localhost ansible_connection=local
Any idea about how should I configure it? Thanks in advance.
Looking at the source code for the mail module ( https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/d1effecb2ef073e478c67a7ca39cf56708a66a48/library/notification/mail ) it doesn't look like it supports SMTP authentication.
It shouldn't be too hard to add support for it however. It would require adding the username and password parameters to the module, detecting if they've both been supplied, and if so, calling smtp.login() with those parameters.
In fact, it looks like there's two pull requests to do exactly that at the moment here
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/7213
and here
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6667
So support will most likely be added in dev soon.
I am looking fopointers on the best approach to process incoming emails to a certain vhost and to call an external script with the email data as parameters - basically to allow email to be sent to a certain "private" email address at a host which then auto inserts something into that sites database. I currently have exim set up as the mail handler.
You have to follow exim single file configurations structure. In routers section write your own custom router that will deliver email to your desired php script. In transport section write your own custom transport that will ensure delivery to the desired script using curl. Just write the following configurations in your /etc/exim.cnf file:
############ROUTERS
runscript:
driver = accept
transport = run_script
unseen
no_expn
no_verify
############TRANSPORT
run_script:
debug_print = "T: run_script for $local_part#$domain"
driver = pipe
command = /home/bin/curl http://my.domain.com/mailTest.php --data-urlencode $original_local_part#$original_domain
Where mailTest.php will be your destined script.
Procmail is a good generic answer. If your needs are very specific, you could hook in your own script directly from your .forward (or Exim's corresponding construct -- can't remember exactly how it differs), but oftentimes, wrapping your own script inside a simple .procmailrc helps you avoid a bunch of iffy details of email delivery, and concentrate on the actual processing.
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| echo "insert $MATCH into users" | mysql -d users
I'm setting up a solution to deploy, driven by a batch file so it's reproducible
- I've got a binding file that works but I've now added on my MSMQ adapters
- works on my local machine, but I've found I have to add a userid and password to get it to work on the actual server
- it's in the domain, my virtual dev machine is just workgroup
Is there someway to add the userid and password to the file ?
- seems unlikely as that'd have the password in clear text, but what's the solution
- I sort of think something w.r.t. SSO, but that is an area I've not been near
You can put the userid and password into any BizTalk binding that supports authentication, including MSMQ. For security, the password is not exported, you just get a mask.
The userName and password sections of the binding file are not exported unless they have been configured, so the simplest thing to do is configure a MSMQ send port with userName and password manually and export the bindings - this forces the elements containing userName and the masked password to be generated into the binding file.
What you are looking for in your binding file is the <TransportTypeData> element of your MSMQ send port. This contains all of your adapter config information as encoded data.
Within that element there is a userName and password section. The password will be masked out with asterisks. Put the password for the environment there and import the binding.
The part of the encoded data with username and password will look something like below:
<userName>YourUserName</userName&
amp;gt;<password>******</password>
For security reasons, when you export
bindings, BizTalk Server removes the
passwords for the bindings from the
file. After importing the bindings,
you must reconfigure passwords for
send ports and receive locations
before they will function. You
configure passwords in the Transport
Properties dialog box of the BizTalk
Server Administration console for the
send port or receive location. For
instructions, see How to Create a Send
Port. See also How to Create a Receive
Location.
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa558708.aspx
If you however open the biding file and scroll down to the line with the properties for the MSMQ Adapter you'll find the empty nodes. All you then have to do is to fill these out and the right values and they will be used the next time you import the binding file.
Of course you'll have to remember to redo this every time you export a new binding ...