Hi, We’re trying to setup Discourse and are having problems setting up the mail part. Our mail server only supports digest_md5 and we’re trying to make Discourse use that authentication. We found that Discouse uses ActionMailer::Base to send mails and that this mailer support 3 authentication meth…

Yes we have tried this authentication method. We first got the following Apr 14 11:43:29 xxxxxxx postfix/smtpd[17754]: lost connection after STARTTLS from discourse.xxxx[XX.XXX.XX.XX] Apr 14 11:43:29 xxxxxxx postfix/smtpd[17754]: disconnect from discourse.xxxx[XX.XXX.XX.XX] Apr 14 11:43:29 xxxxxxx …

Thanks for your reply @zogstrip ! I’ve let Kevin reply since he’s the one who did the setup.

Installing Discourse with digest_md5 mail authentication

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zogstrip 14 Abril , 2017 09:18 2

I think “login” is what you’re looking for. Have you tried that?

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Installing Discourse with digest_md5 mail authentication

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