This page last changed on Sep 20, 2005 by jnolen.
Issue using mail in Jira on Tomcat 4.x
 | There is an issue with Jira standalone prior to and including 3.2.2 and with deploying the Jira .war into tomcat 4.x. The problem is that Jira requires newer versions of the javax.mail (mail.jar) and the javax.activation (activation.jar) packages than are included in tomcat 4.x. |
The solution to the problem is to remove the mail.jar and activation.jar from the TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib directory and replace it with the jars that Jira ships with. To do this you must:
- Remove the TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/mail.jar
- Remove the TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/activation.jar
- Move JIRA_WAR_LOCATION/WEB-INF/lib/activation-1.0.2.jar to TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/activation-1.0.2.jar
- Move JIRA_WAR_LOCATION/WEB-INF/lib/javamail-1.3.2.jar to TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/javamail-1.3.2.jar
This should make the mail enabled elements within Jira work properly.
 | All is not lost
Tomcat 5.0.x and 5.5.x no longer ship the mail and activation jars, so this is not a problem with later versions of tomcat. Jira 3.3 Standalone will ship with Tomcat 5.5. |
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