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  • 1.  General problem with office365 smtp server

    Posted Thu October 01, 2020 09:47 AM
    Hi dear community,

    Starting from yesterday, we are experiencing an issue that prevents Maximo from sending emails via office365 smtp server (smtp.office365.com). Our customers have the problem and we have it as well on our own demo environments.
    Nothing has changed from Maximo side, so I believe there is something wrong with the Microsoft smtp server.
    What about you? Do you have this problem?


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    Tahar Belaid
    Senior Consultant
    TriNmax
    QC
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  • 2.  RE: General problem with office365 smtp server

    Posted Fri October 02, 2020 04:51 AM
    Please try to re import the certificate from o365 using WebSphere 'retrieve from port' - I expect this has expired and been replaced on the Microsoft side

    Regards

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    Kevyn Williams
    Cloud Infrastructure Manager
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  • 3.  RE: General problem with office365 smtp server

    Posted Fri October 02, 2020 07:52 AM
    Agreed with Kevyn that SSL certificates are a likely culprit. We use it for email listener (not SMTP) but I know a few weeks ago we started seeing a new certificate chain for that which we needed to add. 

    These types of errors are typically more detailed in the SystemErr.log of WebSphere so I would look there if retrieving the new certificate doesn't work. If you're running WebSphere 8.5.5 I would also make sure you configure it to support TLS 1.2 (8.5.5 doesn't out of box but WebSphere 9 does). I thought that had already become a requirement to require TLS 1.2 but it might just be starting to take effect.

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    Steven Shull
    Director of Development
    Projetech Inc
    Cincinnati OH
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  • 4.  RE: General problem with office365 smtp server

    Posted Fri October 02, 2020 10:10 AM

    Tahar,

    One of my customers had the same issue and here is what we did to resolve:

    Root Cause - Issue #1 Updated Certificates for Office365 from a single certificate, to now a chaining one. 2 certificates needed to be loaded into Websphere to resolve the issue.

    Issue #2 - Emails from Maximo – Cannot be sent with Maximo out of box functionality which is Logged in user send from that user's email. The send from must be from SMTP User – maximo@company.com where company.com is the email address.



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    Brad Knowles
    Interloc Solutions
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  • 5.  RE: General problem with office365 smtp server

    Posted Fri October 02, 2020 04:04 PM
    Thank you very much Brad and thank you all for your answers!

    We were able to solve the problem by deleting the old SSL certificate (although it was valid until 2030) and by adding 2 other certificates:
    • Using Add - enter location for cert - E:\Client-Certificate\smtp.office365.com.cer
      • Alias Name - smtp.outlook.365
      • Apply and OK
    • Select Retrieve from Port (to get server chain certificate)
      • Host - outlook.office365.com
      • Port 993
      • Alias - office365


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    Tahar Belaid
    Senior Consultant
    TriNmax
    QC
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