Hi there, I have set up Discourse with elest.io which works great. However, I am having trouble setting up the email settings with Brevo (ex Sendinblue). I need a Host User Password Port In den ENV Settings on elest.io, this is what I used: DISCOURSE_SMTP_HOST=smtp-relay.brevo.com DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT=587 DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME=MY@LOGIN-EMAIL.COM DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD=MY-BREVO-SMTP-KEY DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTH=plain I replaced the password with my freshly created API SMTP key and the email with my SMTP login user from Brevo. However, this is not working. No emails are sent out via Brevo. Any ideas how to approach or debug this? Thanks!

Problem solved: I forgot to pass the variables in Doker compose + I had a type. Not it works with these variables: DISCOURSE_SMTP_HOST=smtp-relay.brevo.com DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT=587 DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTH=plain DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER=LOGIN FROM BREVO DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD= SMTP KEY FROM BREVO

I checked this guide, but I don’t know if the 4 information are sufficient to make it work. If anyone is using Brevo successfully here, please let me know.

No, it is not required by Brevo. I have deleted it and tried again, but it still is not working. I am wondering if “authentication=login” is correct. In the standard settings, there was no DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD variable. I added this myself. This is what I see in the Discourse settings (Admin area) [Bildschirmfoto 2024-01-05 um 16.15.58]

These are the logs when clicking on “send test email” [Bildschirmfoto 2024-01-05 um 16.18.52]

Brevo SMTP settings in self-hosted installation

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) January 5, 2024, 12:31pm 3

is brevo instructing you to have this line? I believe this might be causing issues. Try commenting it an rebuild to see if that fixes the issue.

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