Setting Up a Mail Session for the Confluence Distribution

The simplest way to set up a mail server through the Confluence Administration console. See Configuring a Server for Outgoing Mail.

If you want to add different options or parameters you can also set up a mail session for the Confluence distribution. In the example below we'll set up Gmail.

To set up a mail session for the Confluence distribution:

1. Stop Confluence.
2. Move (don't copy) mail-x.x.x.jar from <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib to <confluence-install>/lib.
   Note: where x.x.x. represents the version numbers on the jar files in your installation. 
   Do not leave a renamed backup of the jar files in /confluence/WEB-INF/lib. Even with a different file name, the files will still be loaded as long as it remains in the directory

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. Choose the cog icon , then choose General Configuration under Confluence Administration

6. Choose Mail Servers.
7. Choose either Edit an existing configuration, or Add a new SMTP mail server.

8. 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.

9. Save your changes and send a test email.