mail config stopping server from starting

[gwaitsi]

Hi, using the config as provided on the wiki/documention page i.e. below

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<Resource name="mail/OpenKM" auth="Container" type="javax.mail.Session"
    mail.transport.protocol="smtp"
    mail.smtp.auth="true"
    mail.smtp.host="smtp.gmail.com"
    mail.smtp.port="465"
    mail.user="<username>"
    mail.password="<password>"
    mail.smtp.from="<sender email>"
    mail.smtp.quitwait="false"
    mail.smtp.starttls.enable="true"
    mail.smtp.socketFactory.class="javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory"
    mail.debug="true"/>

i'm getting the below errors, preventing the server from starting.

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2014-09-15 14:57:36,416 [main] WARN  org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina- Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: The value of attribute "mail.user" associated with an element type "null" must not contain the '<' character.
2014-09-15 14:57:36,416 [main] FATAL org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina- Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.

any ideas please.

[Catscratch]

Your config is wrong. You have the replace <username> by your mail account, <password> by your mail credentials and <sender email> by some valid email adress.

[gwaitsi]

according to the documentation catscratch, that is not right.
http://wiki.openkm.com/index.php/Tomcat ... figuration

specifically,
Optionally, you can use mail.user="<username>" and mail.password="<password>" parameters

as i understand it, the <> are suppose to pass a variable, but this now seems to be invalid.

[Catscratch]

No, you can't use "<" or ">" in an XML file unless you quote it.

E.g. Let's assume your username is Mike@mail.com and your password is myawesomesecret.

Then the config would look like this:

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mail.user="Mike@mail.com"
mail.password="myawesomesecret"

[gwaitsi]

appreciate what you are saying catscratch, but according to the docs, it is supposed to be able to use the mail based on the individual user loggedin. hence the desire to use a variable and not a hard coded address.

Therefore i really need to solve the issue of using variables.

cheers

[Catscratch]

No, you can't use variables. Where should they come from? You have to specify ONE user account which is used for mail transfer. It is NOT possible to insert some kind of variables to use the mail account of each openkm user therefor. This is not how tomcat configuration works.