Configure Mail Server In Liferay : Simplest Way

Intended users for this post are developers. As we have to work on restricted environment, where we cannot configure complete mail server and test mails,we need a simplest way to test mailing applications.

Recently I need to test forgot functionality in liferay 6.1.1 for which we need a mail server. Google's smtp free server (smtp.gmail.com: 465) is not allowed in our environment. So I have configured my own smtp server on local machine and tested the functionality. It is really simplest way to test your application.

Step 1: First configure your own mail server on your machine.

• For this download apache 2.3.2 and click on james-2.3.2\bin\run.bat(You have configured your own mail server).
• For detail configuration, see my previous post how-to-setup-own-mail-server-for-your-application

Step 2: Login to liferay as admin user, go to control panel\Server Administration\Mail and enter following details(There are default details, any way).

• Incoming POP Server: localhost
• Incoming Port: 110
• User Name: root
• Password: root
• Outgoing SMTP Server: localhost
• Outgoing Port: 25
• User Name: root
• Password: root 

and save them. 
Step 3: Click on forgot password, enter captcha, password hint and send-email-link. 
Step 4: Verify your mail here where you can see password update link.
JAMES_HOME\apps\james\var\mail\outgoing\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.Repository.FileStreamStore 

Note: If you are using liferay 6.1.1 GA2 and default configuration of apache-james-2-3-2 then link pattern will be some thing like this,
http://localhost:8080/c/portal/update_password?p_l_id=10591&ticketKey=b594ea37-718a-44d0-b46d-f6f9cefe3c09
Remove amp;from the above link, other wise forgot password link will redirect user to home page. It will not ask user for new password.