==================== MAIL TEST ==================== For a robust test, get an address from http://www.mail-tester.com/ Sending mail to REDACTED . . Testing sending to callumokane123@gmail.com using support@maniabots.xyz:REDACTED@smtp.zoho.com:587. SMTP server connection successful. Sending to callumokane123@gmail.com. . . Sending mail failed. ==================== DONE! ==================== And I do not get the activation email for setting up account Any help is appreciated :squinting_face_with_tongue:

My guess is that your forum is called forum.maniabots.xyz and is sending from noreply@forum.maniabots.xyz and your mail server won’t do it. There is a line at the bottom of app.yml that you can change to set the address. You have to edit it by hand.

Can you explain more in detail, my site is located at support.maniabots.xyz and the email is support@maniabots.xyz, my app.yml Config looks fine

## Any custom commands to run after building run: - exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands" ## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change: ## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once. - exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='support@maniabots.xyz'" - exec: echo "End of custom commands"

I have made sure the lines are uncommented and the email is correct now and I have rebuilt the container but I still receive no verification email

So, what do I need to do? I can give you access to the server if needed to help me!

Sorry. I’ve done my best here and have no more ideas. If you want me to solve your problem, then you can see my installation packages: https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-installation-packages/. I can configure Mailgun for you and it will work. There are a hundred different things that might be causing your custom mail server not to work.

You’d not need to change any of your existing mail stuff and Mailgun is free for the first 10K messages/month.

Hi everyone, Did anyone find a solution to this? I’ve setup postfix on my docker host for outgoing emails. It works fine when I send emails from ssh via the mail command, but discourse docker is failing with the same error as the OP got. I’ve used a hint from this thread: How to set SMTP config to use localhost? and thanks to that I got rid of authentication error from discourse docker (I do not provide any user/password to discourse docker to connect to my email server) , but now getting ‘sending mail failed’. Any ideas? I had no idea that setting up an email server would be the hardest part in my discourse journey… :frowning: The discourse install is just flawless and so well thought unlike any linux email server setup. Thanks in advance!

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Callum_OKane (Callum OKane) December 6, 2019, 7:09pm 9

Well, I don’t want to reconfigure my mail stuff with my domain and don’t want to be spending more money for mailgun

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