Hi Community, I have a well runing self-hosted disourse install on a VPS with ubuntu 18.04 for about a year now. As the forum has grown, I started prepairing to switch to a more powerful VPS. So, I took a minimal ubuntu 20.04 image, applied some typical hardenings and installed discourse docker fol…

I could solve this issue - finally. The reason was the sender email address discourse uses by default. It is built from the hostname entered in setup (in my case something similar to v220200xxxxxxxxxxxx.powersrv.de) resulting in the sender address noreply@v220200xxxxxxxxxxxx.powersrv.de which is re…

Thanks for your ideas. Port 587 is open, I can connect to the smtp server with telnet as mentioned in troubleshooting guide. Also tested with ufw disabled - same result. No typo in yaml file - I removed these dots intentionally in my posting (new forum account - only 2 URLs allowed in a post). W…

Post code as proper code blocks, that’s why you ran into the problems you did.

I’m working on a change to discourse-setup that will require you to set the notification_email during the setup process. This should solve problems like yours going forward.

[image] pfaffman: I’m working on a change to discourse-setup that will require you to set the notification_email during the setup process This is now merged and will be asked about on new installs!

Admin activation E-Mail not sent on fresh self-hosted install (ubuntu 20.04)

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Timelord January 18, 2021, 2:20pm 2

During your hardening, did you accidently block port 587?

Is there a type in your yaml.app file?

smtp mailbox org:587

Should this be

smtp.mailbox org:587

Notice the dot.

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Admin activation E-Mail not sent on fresh self-hosted install (ubuntu 20.04)

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