Enabling Sakai to both send and receive email requires setting a number of properties in sakai.properties. In order to send mail Sakai requires the address (name or IP) of an external SMTP server that will accept mail from Sakai:
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smtp@org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=some.smtp.org
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Sakai's SMTP server is Apache James. Most sys admins prefer running a standard mailer like Postfix on port 25 (rather than James directly) and configuring it to forward requests to Sakai. You may also currently have a mailer service running on port 25 (Linux usually has it running by default). So consider setting James to run on a different port (e.g., 8025) in order to avoid conflicts.
To enable Sakai to receive mail you'll need to set the following properties:
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# flag to enable or disable James for incoming email (true | false)
#Default=false.
smtp.enabled=true
# dns addresses used by James for incoming email.
smtp.dns.1=255.255.255.1
smtp.dns.2=255.255.255.2
# SMTP port on which James runs.
# Recommend running on 8025, and using a standard mailer on 25 to forward mail to Sakai.
# Default=25.
smtp.port=8025
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Additional settings can be enabled to add support emails for a variety of tasks.
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# Email support address used in incoming email rejection messages.
mail.support=address@somedomain
# Email address to send errors caught by the portal, and user bug reports in response.
portal.error.email=address@somedomain
# Email address used as the "from" address for any email sent by Worksite Setup tool or Site Info tool.
setup.request=address@somedomain
# Send an email to the user when the user is added.
notifyNewUserEmail=true
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