Web Application Platform services can generate email notifications and send them to a remote email system. To enable email notifications, configure Web Application Platform services, as described below.

To enable email notifications

1. Go to the <install_root>/WebAppPlatform/shared/conf directory.

2. Open for editing the webappplatform.properties file.

   In the webappplatform.properties file: The values of some properties are placeholders, e.g., mail.from.default=info@company.com. Make sure to replace the placeholders with actual values. Read the comments with property descriptions to ensure accuracy when specifying property values.

   
   

3. Specify the following properties under the Platform mailing engine properties used to send notifications via e-mail property group:

   • mail.host
   • mail.port
   • mail.username
   • mail.password
   • mail.protocol
   • mail.encoding
   • mail.from.default
4. If the email server uses SSL or TLS, specify the following properties under the Mailing engine TLS secure properties property group (otherwise, go to the next step):
   
   • mail.smtp.auth
   • mail.smtp.ssl.trust
   • mail.smtp.ssl.enable
   • mail.smtp.starttls.enable
5. Restart Web Application Platform.

Examples

Here are several examples of configuring Web Application Platform services to send email notifications:

mail.protocol=smtp
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.host=gate.company.com
mail.port=25
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=
mail.from.default=info@company.com

mail.protocol=smtp
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.host=gate.company.com
mail.port=465
mail.smtp.auth=true
mail.smtp.ssl.enable=true
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=anonymous
mail.from.default=info@company.com

mail.protocol=smtp
mail.encoding=UTF-8
mail.host=gate.company.com
mail.port=587
mail.smtp.auth=true
mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
mail.username=anonymous
mail.password=anonymous
mail.from.default=info@company.com