Article - CS132583

Windchill fails to send notification Emails to users via 'Quick Links >> Email Page' in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 16-Feb-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.0 to 12.1
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
  • Microsoft Exchange Server2003

Description

  • Failure to send notification emails to users via Quick Links > Email Page
  • Windchill system is not sending emails to external emails.
  • Works fine emailing users with email addresses within the company
  • Unable to trigger emails even though the SMTP configuration is correct 
  • Email address does not violate following parameter
    • wt.mail.validation.regExp=^[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+(\\.[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(\\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*\\.(([0-9]{1,9})|([a-zA-Z]{2,9})|(aero|coop|info|museum|name|caep|abcdbc|))$
    • Refers to CS49213 for more information
  • SMTP server is Microsoft Exchange Server
  • Error logged in Method Server log:
MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>                                                                                                 
250 2.1.0 Sender OK                                                                                                                     
RCPT TO:<[email protected]>                                                                                                             
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay                                                                                                               
DEBUG SMTP: Invalid Addresses                                                                                                           
DEBUG SMTP:   [email protected]                                                                                                        
DEBUG SMTP: Sending failed because of invalid destination addresses                                                                     
RSET                                                                                                                                    
250 2.0.0 Resetting                                                                                                                     
javax.mail.SendFailedException: Invalid Addresses;                                                                                      
  nested exception is:                                                                                                                  
    com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPAddressFailedException: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.rcptTo(SMTPTransport.java:1607) at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:887) at com.infoengine.webject.msg.SendMail.invoke(SendMail.java:480) at com.infoengine.procunit.webject.WebjectProcessor.invokeWebject(WebjectProcessor.java:624) at com.infoengine.procunit.webject.WebjectProcessor.processTask(WebjectProcessor.java:210)
    at com.infoengine.SAK.Webject.invoke(Webject.java:491)
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