[Building Sakai] Announcements tool not sending emails

[Jeremy O'Connor]

Hi

We are running Sakai CLE 2.9.1. The Announcements tool is not sending emails. This is what I found in catalina.out:

(2014-02-25 10:30:41,408 ajp-bio-8009-exec-60757_org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailService) - WARN: Email.sendMail: exception: 501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax
 
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax
;
  nested exception is:
	com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSenderFailedException: 501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax

	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.issueSendCommand(SMTPTransport.java:2057)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.mailFrom(SMTPTransport.java:1580)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:1097)
	at org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailService.sendMessageAndLog(BasicEmailService.java:1294)
	at org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailService.sendMail(BasicEmailService.java:601)
	at org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailService.sendMail(BasicEmailService.java:427)
	at org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailService.send(BasicEmailService.java:670)
	at org.sakaiproject.sitemanage.impl.ETSUserNotificationProviderImpl.emailTemplateServiceSend(ETSUserNotificationProviderImpl.java:524)
	at org.sakaiproject.sitemanage.impl.ETSUserNotificationProviderImpl.notifyCourseRequestRequester(ETSUserNotificationProviderImpl.java:339)
	at org.sakaiproject.site.tool.SiteAction.sendSiteRequest(SiteAction.java:5763)
	at org.sakaiproject.site.tool.SiteAction.updateCourseSiteSections(SiteAction.java:5491)
	at org.sakaiproject.site.tool.SiteAction.doFinish(SiteAction.java:5256)
	at org.sakaiproject.site.tool.SiteAction.doAdd_site_option(SiteAction.java:10863)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
	at org.sakaiproject.cheftool.VelocityPortletPaneledAction.actionDispatch(VelocityPortletPaneledAction.java:749)
	at org.sakaiproject.cheftool.VelocityPortletPaneledAction.processAction(VelocityPortletPaneledAction.java:625)
	at org.sakaiproject.cheftool.ToolServlet.doGet(ToolServlet.java:230)
	at org.sakaiproject.cheftool.VelocityPortletPaneledAction.doGet(VelocityPortletPaneledAction.java:1156)
	at org.sakaiproject.cheftool.ToolServlet.doPost(ToolServlet.java:154)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)
	at org.sakaiproject.vm.ComponentServlet.service(ComponentServlet.java:56)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
	at org.sakaiproject.util.RequestFilter.doFilter(RequestFilter.java:634)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:684)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:471)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:369)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:329)
	at org.sakaiproject.tool.impl.ActiveToolComponent$MyActiveTool.forward(ActiveToolComponent.java:511)
	at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.forwardTool(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:1474)
	at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.handlers.ToolHandler.doTool(ToolHandler.java:213)
	at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.handlers.ToolHandler.doGet(ToolHandler.java:96)
	at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.handlers.ToolHandler.doPost(ToolHandler.java:73)
	at org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.doPost(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:1261)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
	at org.sakaiproject.util.RequestFilter.doFilter(RequestFilter.java:695)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:185)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:151)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:405)
	at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:193)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:515)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:300)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSenderFailedException: 501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax

	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.mailFrom(SMTPTransport.java:1587)
	... 59 more

--
Jeremy