[Using Sakai] E-mailing Support

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Andrew,

Welcome to Sakai. The short answer is yes to all of your questions.

Sakai can send emails using a normal SMTP server. This is configured  
via sakai.properties, the property is already in there you just need  
to configure it:
# smtp server for outgoing emails
smtp at org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=smtp.somewhere.edu.au

Sakai can also receive emails using Apache James which is also built  
in. This is a bit more involved and requires some server admin work.  
Again its configured via sakai.properties, see the section on Email  
Configuration for the properties.

See also this article:
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+Admin+Guide+-+Email+Configuration

There is a mailing tool in Sakai where you can send out emails to  
members of a site. It used to be called Mailtool but it's been  
superseded and I believe the new one is stealthed. Thats for simple  
outgoing email.

You can also configure the Email Archive tool you mention, which is  
essentially a mailing list tool. You can then send email to your Sakai  
site from your normal Mail app and it will be distributed to members  
of the site. They can reply and the email chain continues. It's called  
Email Archive because the emails are archived in the tool itself, and  
so you can search in the Sakai site for those messages.

cheers,
Steve

On 12/11/2009, at 7:30 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to Sakai, and I'd like to know:
> - does Sakai support e-mailing?
> - how does it support e-mailing?
> - is there a tool or a feature that acts like an e-mail client  
> "sends and receives e-mails"?
> - if not, how to use external e-mail client to be integrated in Sakai?
> - what is [E-mail Archive] feature?
>
> thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Harvey
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