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414493, modified 18 Years ago.
message board configuration
New Member Posts: 14 Join Date: 1/22/08 Recent Posts
pls help me in configuring message board portlet to send and recieve emails.....

how to use the EMAIL option in the message boards portlet?

How to send and recieve mail through this....


http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/How_to_use_the_Message_Board_as_a_Mailing_List

I have tried with this but was not able to find solution....

Pls reply me as soon as possible..........
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282533, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
Liferay Master Posts: 576 Join Date: 11/19/07 Recent Posts
Hi Vid,

Have you set up a SMTP server? If not you first need to setup your SMTP server. Here is a "How To" to setup Gmail as a SMTP server, you could see how Craig did and change it according to your needs.

How to configure Liferay to use Gmail as a SMTP server

-mike
414493, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
New Member Posts: 14 Join Date: 1/22/08 Recent Posts
thanks for ur immediate reply.......

yes i have done that......I can able to send mail from web form portlet........

help me in using email option in message board portlet........
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282533, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
Liferay Master Posts: 576 Join Date: 11/19/07 Recent Posts
hey vid,

what version of Liferay are you currently using?

-mike
414493, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
New Member Posts: 14 Join Date: 1/22/08 Recent Posts
I am using liferay 4.3.4 mike
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282533, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
Liferay Master Posts: 576 Join Date: 11/19/07 Recent Posts
Vid,

There were some problems with the message board when it came to emails in 4.3.4. Here are some LEP tickets.

LEP-4459
LEP-4534

when you say that you want to send Email from the message board are you talking about subscriptions or replying to a subscription from an email?
414493, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
New Member Posts: 14 Join Date: 1/22/08 Recent Posts
hi mike,

Jus want to knw how to configure mailing option in message board.......I am not very clear with the subscription..I jus want to knw both sending and recieving mails through message board..

http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Message_Board:_enable_listserv_feature


I am not very clear with this document[Message_Board:_enable_listserv_feature]......wat i need to do with this to configure my message board portlet to send and recieve mail..........

orelse whether I can proceed without doing the steps mentioned in the that document by directly subscribing the category......

as like mentioned in this document[How_to_use_the_Message_Board_as_a_Mailing_List]
...

http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/How_to_use_the_Message_Board_as_a_Mailing_List


Pls clear me how to proceed.......
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282533, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
Liferay Master Posts: 576 Join Date: 11/19/07 Recent Posts
hi vid,

In the version of Liferay 4.3.4 that you are using, the feature to post reply from emails was currently not working. The subscription should still work. If someone subscribes to a message board thread or category they will receive the subscriptions via email but if they want to reply using their email this feature was not working in 4.3.4.

As of 4.3.6+ the problem was fixed.

-mike
414493, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
New Member Posts: 14 Join Date: 1/22/08 Recent Posts
hi mike,

thanks a lot for ur response.....Its helping me a lot to knw more abt message board portlet......the following content it was in the document http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Message_Board:_enable_listserv_feature in set up


1. Determine what email address to use for posting messages to message board via email. The email address needs to have a subdomain. Let's use events.liferay.com here.

2. Edit portal-ext.properties:

##
## SMTP
##

smtp.server.enabled=true
smtp.server.port=25
smtp.server.subdomain=events
3. Create a MX record to map events.liferay.com to the portal hosting the message board.


wat this step exactly means??...wat is subdomain??......pls clear me this mike

4. Test replying to a post in notification email.

To test locally, update Hosts file to include events.liferay.com mapped to 127.0.0.1 then test either via telnet (see reference) or an email client (ie: thunderbird). The from-address needs to be one of the valid accounts in portal. The to-address would be mb.123@events.liferay.com where 123 is the categoryId. You can hover a category link in Message Board portlet to get the categoryId.

Note: events.liferay.com is parsed into liferay.com as companyId prior to version 4.3, and as MX with version 4.3. MX can be set in admin portlet > enterprise > mail domain.



Pls explain me this steps.....For example: mail domain i can understand it is liferay.com....wat is sub domain? emoticon
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282533, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
Liferay Master Posts: 576 Join Date: 11/19/07 Recent Posts
Hi Vid,

The subdomain is a domain that is a part of a larger domain.

2. Edit portal-ext.properties:

##
## SMTP
##

smtp.server.enabled=true
smtp.server.port=25
smtp.server.subdomain=events
3. Create a MX record to map events.liferay.com to the portal hosting the message board.


In this example, the subdomain is events. So the URL is
events.liferay.com


if you're doing this make sure you update the host file.

-mike
414493, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
New Member Posts: 14 Join Date: 1/22/08 Recent Posts
hi mike,

I cud able to send mail.......previously subscribe option was not working with my application.....now its working......now I cud able to send mail.......
the problem is......when i send mail from the message board.....The recipient cud able to view the format of that mail also...

for example:
hi abc email=abc@xyz.com abc /email

here in the above line.....the message here is hi abc and the mail address is email=abc@xyz.com abc /email

but the recipient was able to see the format also instead of getting the message alone.....He cud able to see the email format also
email=abc@xyz.com abc /email ...

he shd recieve only the the message hi abc

wat to do for this??????
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282533, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
Liferay Master Posts: 576 Join Date: 11/19/07 Recent Posts
Hi Vid,

I'm glad you got your subscriptions working and are able to send mail. I currently don't know how to resolve your problem but will continue to look into it. If anyone else out there has suggestions feel free to chime in.

-mike
414493, modified 18 Years ago.
RE: message board configuration
New Member Posts: 14 Join Date: 1/22/08 Recent Posts
thanks a lot for ur immediate response...Ur replies were very much useful for me for resolving this problem........thanks a lot mikeemoticon