Hey everyone, I’ve been wrestling with setting up SMTP on my Discourse installation, and it’s been quite the challenge. I’ve delved into numerous posts like this one without luck. Here’s the scoop: I suspect my issues are tied to the format and length of the username and password that I’m required…

Edit, issue fixed. Problem was user name env variable should be DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME instead of DISCOURSE_SMTP_USERNAME. The below configuration work: DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: <Azure communication service SMTP user name (does not need to be <Azure Communication Services Resource name>.<Entra …

Hello, I have met the same issue with Azure Communication Service. According to the Microsoft Docs, I think it might be that Microsoft Entra must be supported by the application but Discourse unfortunately doesn’t support that. Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to any other available methods, too.

I ran into the same issue and found this topic on a web search, and it appears that (just like with the Microsoft 365 email servers before they dropped password-based authentication) only AUTH LOGIN is supported, not AUTH PLAIN which is the default in Discourse at the time of this writing. Setting D…

[afbeelding] gichamba: Job exception: Net::SMTPAuthenticationError I have also been trying to set it up following the suggestion here. However, I also could not get it working but I can’t find any logs regarding SMTP issue. Do you know which log file should I look for. Thanks.

You’ll want to check the /logs URL. If you’re debugging, you might be farther ahead trying the rake 'emails:test[your_email]' task. You can also set environment variables to try different things without needing a container rebuild, e.g.: $ DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT=587 DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME=bilbo DI…

I am using the discourse/discourse 2025.12.0 image. Interesting, even if i do not set DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD, the production.log does not display any errors as if the admin user registration task doesn’t get called. The only log available is Started POST “/finish-installation/register” for xxx at …

You’re looking for https://whateveryoursiteis.com/logs

[afbeelding] kyfrankie: The site hasn’t been fully setup with admin email verification you can rake admin:create from the container to create an account directly Also, I’ve just learned that the way we handle environment variables has changed - we no longer look at them except at container b…

Moeite met het configureren van SMTP in Discourse met Azure Communication Service

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Looks like this is now fixed, thanks to @justinm

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9125f85e697dfb7797d6d79a2f66e0032ed168dd

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Moeite met het configureren van SMTP in Discourse met Azure Communication Service

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