I had cause to reset my SMTP password in mailgun. I re-ran the discourse set up ( twice double checking the password) but I still cannot send email. I followed the help at This Question and found the message “Mailgun is not loving your login or password” The login has not changed and I have double checked the new password.

[Connor Black] Nodemailer and Mailgun javascript, node.js, coffeescript, mailgun asked by Connor Black on 05:54PM - 20 Mar 14 UTC

Are you confusing the API key and the smtp password?

I dont think so. The only thing I changed was DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD in Discourse Setup and the password in MailGun

And it came from somewhere that looked like this? (Except there’s a green “verified” box instead of “unverified”.) [image]

Yes. Only with my domain name instead of d.Itcmp.net and different IP Address, API Key and password.

You want the password, though, not the API Key.

Yes the default password. I have checked several times Could there be some expectation about the password? Over 26 characters for example? I have only started look at MX records etc because I don’t know what else to check.

In discourse set up I was using the SMTP email address postmaster@discourse.mydomain.com however the mailgun login is just postmaster@mydomain.com Which one should I change?

I got confused because the 30 minute set up instructions had [postmaster@discourse.example.com]: and postmaster@discourse.mydomain.com did actually work for me at first strangely.

[image] kgreed: postmaster@discourse.mydomain.com did actually work for me at first strangely. That’s the default username for mailgun. It appears that yours somehow got changed.

Mailgun is not loving your login or password

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) November 4, 2017, 2:53am 12

You should use the one that mailgun said to use. So take discourse out of the username.

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