Hi Im pulling my hair out a bit here. I following the standard install instructions, have setup mailjet etc but the bootstrap fails every time. heres the setup, I just cant see what Im missing Any ideas? Thanks Does this look right? Hostname : forum.mydomain.com Email : forumadmi…

Perhaps the script is not asking because it’s already in your app.yml and then gives the error due to this (because the email is already wrong in the file app.yml). Try changing the email in the file manually and see if it works (nano containers/app.yml). The line that gave the error tests to see …

Why would the email in the let’s encrypt field be a password or secret key? It’s supposed to be an email address.

Yes it seems to be the Lets Encrypt variable but as I said above, the install script will not permit an opportunity to provide an email address. As soon as the SMTP password is received, it seems to jump past that stage, and pops an error. You can see that here… Hostname for your Discourse? [forum…

[image] bifterx: Let’s Encrypt Enter an email address here instead of a Secret Password. That email address is used to create an account in letsencrypt to get SSL certificate for discourse.

I don’t know how you’ would not be able I enter the let’s encrypt email address. Are you pasting an extra return?

that sir, is a thought, let me try

its not that. the script just breezes past the Lets Encrypt bit, as soon as I enter the password it pops that line 438: [: too many arguments and continues

Do your password has special characters? Try to enter a fake password without special characters like 123456 in the password and see if it asks the Let’s Encrypt email.

no it doesn’t, its the generated p/word straight from mailjet but Ill try entering fake one.

no dice. tried that - same error.

Failing to bootstrap on DO droplet w/mailjet

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bifterx (rob Dennis) February 5, 2020, 8:53am 3

The script won’t let me enter anything for LETS ENCRYPT.
As soon as I enter the SMTP username and password, off it goes.

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