[Building Sakai] EmailService patch

[Stephen Marquard]

OK, I can't resist - why would you want to hook up your Sakai site to GMail ?

Cheers
Stephen 
 
>>> Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk> 8/12/2009 4:05 PM >>> 
Apologies for the stream of 'Emailservice patch' emails. Hopefully this 
will be the last one. I'm persevering with this because maybe somewhere 
in the world there is a 2.5.x admin who wants to hook their Sakai up to 
GMail ...

I've attached three patches. One for email, one for mailtool and one for 
user. To install them, use the patch command from the root of your Sakai 
source directory:

patch -p0 < email.patch
patch -p0 < mailtool.patch
patch -p0 < user.patch

You should then be able, after the judicious setting of some options in 
sakai.properties and a restart, to use an authenticating SMTP server 
like GMail, even over SSL! I haven't done a lot of testing of this; it 
is an emergency patch to a deployment system, but I am confident :)

Is anybody aware on an existing JIRA ticket of relevance. I'd like to 
attach these patches to something meaningful.

Cheers,

Adrian.

Adrian Fish wrote:
> I've attached a patch for the 2.5.x version of OneWayHash.java in 
> user/user-impl. It basically uses StringUtil to trim the outputs of 
> MimeUtility, as per David's instruction in 
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-239, and cured my strange 
> problem with internal user accounts getting locked out.
>
> I'm going to patch MailTool next, as I need to repeat the SSL and auth 
> process there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian.
>
> Adrian Fish wrote:
>> I suppose I should add that SSL does not work with javamail 1.3.1. I 
>> couldn't get it to work anyway. Hence the need for 1.4.2.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adrian.
>>
>> Adrian Fish wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> Ah, okay. That would explain why one of my test logins keeps getting 
>>> lost :) I've been rebuilding the stack quite frequently recently and 
>>> just thought that I had damaged the database somehow. I'll have a 
>>> play with patching OneWayHasEncode, as you suggested in the ticket.
>>>
>>> Many, many thanks for pointing that out.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Adrian.
>>>
>>> David Horwitz wrote:
>>>> Hi Adrian,
>>>>
>>>> You may have problems with the UserDirectory service and mail-1.4.2 
>>>> - at
>>>> least we had to change code in it to get it to work in the current 
>>>> trunk
>>>> kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Have a look at:
>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-239 for what had to be changed
>>>> (it had to do with password hashing)
>>>>
>>>> Also if you update mail you need to update activation.
>>>>
>>>> D
>>>>
>>>> Adrian Fish wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've attached an svn diff file for Sakai 2.5.x's email service. This
>>>>> patch adds a set of attributes to the BasicEmailService class. 
>>>>> These are:
>>>>>
>>>>> m_smtpUser
>>>>> m_smtpPassword
>>>>> m_smtpUseSSL
>>>>> m_smtpDebug
>>>>>
>>>>> These can be set from sakai.properties, like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> smtpUser at org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=<SMTP_USER>
>>>>> smtpPassword at org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=<SMTP_PASSWORD>
>>>>> smtpUseSSL at org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=true
>>>>> smtpDebug at org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=true
>>>>>
>>>>> Two methods in the class have changed, sendMail and sendToUsers, the
>>>>> changes involving setting up the Session properties to use
>>>>> authentication and perhaps SSL.
>>>>>
>>>>> To use this patch against 2.5.x you need to remove old versions of
>>>>> mail.jar (in my case it was mail-1.3.1.jar) and make sure that 1.4.2
>>>>> gets placed in shared by maven.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tested this against gmail using authentication and SSL, and it
>>>>> works. What I've not tested is that Digests still work okay, but they
>>>>> should as BaseDigestService uses the send, and consequently the
>>>>> sendMail method which I've patched.
>>>>>
>>>>> To apply it, cd into your 2.5.x SAKAI_SRC/email directory, copy
>>>>> email.diff in, and run this:
>>>>>
>>>>> patch -p0 < email.diff
>>>>>
>>>>> You should hopefully get some output like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> patching file email-shared-deploy/pom.xml
>>>>> patching file email-impl/.classpath
>>>>> patching file
>>>>> email-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/email/impl/BasicEmailService.java 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> patching file email-impl/impl/pom.xml
>>>>> patching file email-api/.classpath
>>>>> patching file email-api/api/pom.xml
>>>>>
>>>>> Any problems, drop me a line.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Adrian.
>>>>>
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