Email Preview Portlet

The Email Preview Portlet is a JSR-268 read-only email portlet. This portlet allows a user to connect to an IMAP, POP3, or Exchange Web Services email store and view and manage contents of INBOX and other mail folders.

This is a Sponsored Portlet in the Apereo uPortal project.

Issue Tracker: https://issues.jasig.org/browse/EMAILPLT

License: Apache Software License, version 2.0

Features

• Display total message count & unread message count
• Display the contents of your Inbox or any folder on the mail server
• Display messages in a table, with the following information for each message
  • Subject
  • Sender
  • Date Sent
  • Whether the message has been previously viewed
  • Whether the message contains attachments
• Page through your messages & choose page size
• Check for new messages ("Refresh")
• Click on a message to view it's content
• Display customizable Welcome message
• Display customizable Help text
• Provide authentication via cached credential replay or user-specified preferences
• Uses Antisamy to protect against cross-site scripting (XSS)

Administrator Settings

These may be configured by the administrator or omitted. The following connection settings apply to IMAP/POP integration. Exchange Web Services support is also available.

• Protocol - IMAP(S) or POP(S)
• Mail Server (host)
• Port
• Inbox Folder Name
• Timeout
• Connection Timeout
• Inbox URL (for click-through into the webmail client)
• Link Service
• Authentication Service (cachePassword and/or portletPreferences)
• Which settings, if any, users may configure (see below)

User Settings

These may be set by users if permitted by the administrator. If any field is defined by both the admin and the user, the user's value is used.

• Protocol (not including Exchange Web Services)
• Mail Server (host)
• Port
• Mailbox folder name
• Mark Messages Read
• Username (portletPreferences authentication only)
• Password (portletPreferences authentication only)
• Show rollup (smaller) or preview (larger) on login
• Focus on Preview

Configuration

See also the [legacy documentation in the external wiki][].

Java Properties

Some configuration settings for the Email Preview portlet are managed in Java properties files that are loaded by a Spring PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer. (Other settings are data, managed in the "portlet publication record" a.k.a. portlet-definition.xml file

The properties files that are sourced by Spring are:

• classpath:configuration.properties
• file:${portal.home}/global.properties
• file:${portal.home}/email-preview.properties

For a definitive, comprehensive list of these settings you must look inside configuration.properties. (This README may be incomplete and/or out of date.)

The portal.home Directory

uPortal version 5 uses a directory called portal.home for properties files that live outside of -- and have the ability to override properties files within-- the webapp in Tommcat. Please review the [README file for uPortal-Start][] for more information on this sytem.

The Notification portlet sources the shared global.properties file, as well as it's own (private) file called email-preview.properties in the portal.home directory.

Using Encrypted Property Values

Within the properties files that are sourced by Spring, you may optionally provide sensitive configuration items -- such as database passwords -- in encrypted format. Use the [Jasypt CLI Tools][] to encrypt the sensitive value, then include it in a .properties file like this:

hibernate.connection.password=ENC(9ffpQXJi/EPih9o+Xshm5g==)

Specify the encryption key using the UP_JASYPT_KEY environment variable.

Contributing

This project follows the uPortal Contributing Guidelines.