Alfresco: how to send outbound email via gmail

I have found we can send outbound email in Alfresco via Google's SMTP server (smtp.gmail.com). According to Google 's SMTP server uses TTLS encryption (opens in new window), it is a matter of configuring the JavaMail to use TTLS. Alfresco version: 3.4.4 EE, 4.0.x EE and Community. Step 1. modifying ${ALFRESCO_HOME}/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties as below.

mail.host=smtp.gmail.com mail.port=465 mail.username= mail.password= mail.protocol=smtps mail.from.default=alf_admin@your.com mail.encoding=UTF-8 mail.smtps.auth=true mail.smtps.starttls.enable=true

Step 2. Enable the Spring JavaMail bean for TLS (only necessary for 3.4) Please add the "mail.smtp.starttls.enable" line as below. ${ALFRESCO_HOME}/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/subsystems/email/OutboundSMTP/outboundSMTP-context.xml

${mail.host} ${mail.port} ${mail.protocol} ${mail.username} ${mail.password} ${mail.encoding} ${mail.smtp.auth} ${mail.smtp.starttls.enable}

Step 3. restart Alfresco server.