How do I setup SMTP on a Discourse Droplet ?

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)

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.

app.yml
cd /var/discourse
./launcher rebuild app

I have the same question as the original poster. And, if I may say so, I feel that Andrews does not answer the question.

I am quite happy to have you handle my mail server but at the first SSH sign-in I was asked for my SMTP settings and I think I may have given the wrong port.

How can I change the SMPT port now?

Thank you and

Hello,

Configuring and administering a mail server on your own is not always an easy, straight forward task. We have a great tutorial/article about some of the issues you might run into: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server

If you DO decide you want to run your mail server after reading that article, we have a lot of articles about different options to setup a mail server: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/search?q=mail+server. Depending on your skill level I would either suggest mail in a box (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-your-own-mail-server-with-mail-in-a-box-on-ubuntu-14-04) for an easier solution or send-only postfix (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-as-a-send-only-smtp-server-on-ubuntu-16-04) for a more advanced solution.

Regards,

–Andrew