Below is a list of versions that are available for the emailListener plugin. To find other plugins, please review this listing of most recent releases of all plugins.

Plugins extend and enhance the functionality of Openfire. To install plugins, copy the .jar file into the plugins directory of your Openfire installation.

Email Listener Plugin Readme

On 29 October 2020, this git repository was rewritten to remove unrelated history to this plugin.

Overview

The email listener plugin is a service that connects to an email server using IMAP andforwards new email messages to specified users.

Installation

Copy emailListener.jar into the plugins directory of your Openfire installation. Theplugin will then be automatically deployed. To upgrade to a new version, copy the newemailListener.jar file over the existing file or upgrade from the admin console.

Configuration

The email listener plugin can be configured via the Openfire Admin Console.Use the configuration page to specify the email server and user to use toconnect to the server. The list of users to notify of new email messages should becomma delimited and the bare JID (e.g. john@server.com) should be used. Once theservice has been configued it will automatically connect and start monitoring for newemail messages.

Using the Plugin

Once Openfire is started the plugin will connect to the email server and start to monitorfor new email messages. New email message will be sent to specified users. Every time theconfiguration of the email listener service is updated the service will be automaticallyrestarted.