Re: Activating email with a Roller installation

Dave <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to install Apache Roller on an Ubuntu Linux desktop machine
> running Tomcat just to experiment with it.  I'd like to enable the emailing
> feature, where bloggers get an email whenever people leave comments.  The
> Roller installation guide is a little vague in this area:  Is there a
> special mail server I will need to install (Apache James I guess?) to get
> Roller to send emails or is the emailing capability already built into
> Roller once I install the activation and mail jars in Tomcat?

No special mail server is needed. Take a look at Install guide 7.1 and
12.2 for details on how to configure mail using either a "properties"
or "jndi" approach.

- Dave
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