how do you set system properties in lift?

[george]

say I wanted to change the port / host that the Mailer uses.

how would I go about that?

thanks

[Tim Nelson]

You need to set system properties:

System.setProperty("mail.smtp.starttls.enable","true");
        System.setProperty("mail.smtp.host", host)
        System.setProperty("mail.smtp.port", "587")
        System.setProperty("mail.smtp.auth", "true")
        Mailer.authenticator = Full(new Authenticator {
            override def getPasswordAuthentication =
                new PasswordAuthentication(user, password)
        })

Tim

[jon]

Note that if you're on 1.1-SNAPSHOT you can set customProperties on
the Mailer which would allow to use some other configuration mechanism
than system property (like Props or Configgy).

val props = Map[String,String]("mail.smtp.host" -> "...")

Mailer.customProperties = props
Mailer.authenticator = Full(new Authenticator(){

override def getPasswordAuthentication = new

PasswordAuthentication("f...@foo.com","bar")
})


Mailer.buildProps would return the Properties the Mailer is currently
using.

- Jon