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title: "Alfresco: how to send outbound email via gmail · Appnovation"
url: "https://www.appnovation.com/insights/alfresco-how-send-outbound-email-gmail"
description: "Step-by-step guide to configuring Alfresco to send outbound email through Gmail's SMTP server using TTLS, for Alfresco 3.4 and 4.x."
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# Alfresco: how to send outbound email via gmail

[![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/36eb314260fb474cacc1b3a473d7e8402d997898-68x68.png?w=68&auto=format) Appno Blogger Appnovation Coop](/people/appno-blogger.md) Nov 14, 2011  
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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)](http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287), 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.

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