SA-6384

Summary

There is a mailbox upgrade happening within User whereby all mailboxes are upgraded to Outlook 2010. Changes were done to Pega email accounts/server running on Pega 7 and PRPC 6 versions. 

The Pega7 listeners started up successfully. However, PRPC 6 listeners with the same values given didn't start up.

Error Messages

Caused by: javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: imap-uat, port: 465; 
nested exception is: 
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused 
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1391) 

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open any Email Server in PRPC 6.2 
2. Update the config to use IMAPS (i.e with Use SSL checked) 
3. Update port number to 993. 

Root Cause

The root cause of this problem is the issue with version 6.2 SP1 where PRPC EmailListener will ignore the port for outbound mail and always connect using SMTP or Secure SMTP.  As the user have disabled the SMTP on their email server, listener fails to start up.

Resolution

This issue is resolved by adding the below DSS setting.
 
Owing ruleset: "Pega-IntSvcs"
Purpose/description : email/blockResponse 
Value = true

This setting will enable the EmailListener to block the test connection to the response server via SMTP.