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…

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.

[image] Christian: DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTH=plain 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.

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 ar…

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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chaefner (Christian) January 5, 2024, 3:27pm 5

These are the logs when clicking on “send test email”

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Brevo SMTP settings in self-hosted installation

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