This page last changed on Jul 26, 2011 by alaskowski.

Set up a mail session in Confluence Standalone to use Gmail as follows:

  1. Stop Confluence.
  2. Move (don't copy) activation-1.0.2.jar and mail-1.4.1.jar from <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib to <confluence-install>/lib.
  3. Add the following to your server.xml file found in <confluence-install>/conf/ (add it just before the </Context> tag):

    For Confluence 3.5.x
    <Resource name="mail/GmailSMTPServer"
        auth="Container"
        type="javax.mail.Session"
        mail.smtp.host="smtp.gmail.com"
        mail.smtp.port="465"
        mail.smtp.auth="true"
        mail.smtp.user="yourEmailAddress@gmail.com"
        password="yourPassword"
        mail.smtp.starttls.enable="true"
        mail.transport.protocol="smtps"
        mail.smtp.socketFactory.class="javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory"
    />

  4. Restart Confluence.
  5. Go to Browse > Confluence Admin and click on Mail Servers. Choose either Edit an existing configuration, or Add a new SMTP mail server.
  6. Edit the server settings as necessary, and set the JNDI Location as:

         java:comp/env/mail/GmailSMTPServer
    

    Note that the JNDI Location is case sensitive and must match the resource name specified in server.xml.
  7. Submit, and send a test email.
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