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How do I setup SMTP on a Discourse Droplet ?

Just installed the Discourse droplet, changed the root password, and followed the prompts. I was asked for SMTP information and thought it was as simple as using the default, adding my email address, and be done with it. However, emails are not being sent.

Is there another step that I missed?

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bdschaap • January 23, 2017

Hi, I’m also having difficulty getting the registration email to work for the admin account.

I’m using Zoho as my email provider. I have successfully configured DKIM and SPF. The production.log file shows this where the email address is a valid address.

Sent mail to testemailaddress@mydomain.net (1449.1ms) Job exception: end of file reached

Any suggestions? I read through the questions and answers in https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-email-on-a-new-discourse-install/16326 without luck. Here is a snippet of app.yml.

DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: 'testemailaddress@mydomain.net'

## TODO: The SMTP mail server used to validate new accounts and send notifications
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtp.zoho.com
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: testemailaddress@mydomain.net
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: "longpasswordforaboveusername"
#DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true # (optional, default true)
shalom • January 14, 2017

I have the same problem. I’ve almost completed the Discourse setup, but I can’t log in and complete the process because the confirmation email never sends. My mail server (and web host) are 1and1. I used app.yml to change the port from 587 to 25, as advised on another forum post, but that didn’t work. Does anyone have a fix for this? I’m blocked.

andxblink • October 14, 2016
app.yml
cd /var/discourse
./launcher rebuild app

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