Roller Weblogger Part I

In which the Spugster tries to get mail working in his install of Roller Weblogger.

Scene I: A small office in Gloucestershire.

I'd followed all the instructions to the lettter and copied the mail.jar and activation.jar to the tomcat/common/lib directory and I was still gettting the JNDI error about "Cannot create resource instance".

I fannied around for ages, googling this googling that and finally in bowles of some obscure tech forum:

Are you using Tomcat 5.0.25? If so, you may want to consider upgrading or just stealing common/lib/naming-factory.jar from a 5.0.24 version of Tomcat. org.apache.naming.factory.MailSessionFactory is missing from tomcat
5.0.25.

That was the daddy. About fours hours that took me, great.

As the man said; "Open source software is just fab if your time is worthless"