Can't Send Emails

Installation
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I’m not receiving emails when I create an account and I was wondering if I did anything wrong… what’s the difference between an SMTP address and an SMTP domain?

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SMTP address: user@example.com
SMTP domain: example.com

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Do you think you could help me? I’ve used an SMTP tool online and it all works fine, but Discourse doesn’t seem to be sending emails when I sign up…

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Hello and welcome @ethhaqn :slight_smile:

Have you checked out the troubleshooting guide?

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I used telnet mail.theapi.tech 25 and it returned 220 myhelper.tech ESMTP Postfix, an old domain that I used for testing this system. Do you think it’s making an impact on email sending? If so, where can I change the domain? Again, it’s an old domain but I’m not sure where I could’ve inputted this domain for it to be returned when I run telnet mail.theapi.tech 25.

It may also be worth nothing that ./discourse-doctor told me that there was an uncommon error and couldn’t seem to resolve my issue.

Also, I didn’t use ./discourse-setup to setup Discourse as port 80 was taken. Instead, I manually edited containers/app.yml and ran ./launcher rebuild app.

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I used tail shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log and the logs say:

Processing by FinishInstallationController#confirm_email as HTML
  Rendered finish_installation/confirm_email.html.erb within layouts/finish_installation (Duration: 0.7ms | Allocations: 255)
  Rendered layout layouts/finish_installation.html.erb (Duration: 6.7ms | Allocations: 2103)
Completed 200 OK in 8ms (Views: 7.4ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 2735)
start
  Rendered layouts/email_template.html.erb (Duration: 0.1ms | Allocations: 34)
Delivered mail 0e5b023a-90f9-4c23-ae2b-488b4d70d907@theapi.tech (39.6ms)
Job exception: hostname "mail.theapi.tech" does not match the server certificate

fail
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openssl s_client -connect mail.theapi.tech:25 -starttls smtp -showcerts

Verification error: self signed certificate

So you need to set DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: none in your app.yml

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Won’t that make it so that you don’t need to verify your email?

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No. It will make Discourse skip the verification that is failing right now.

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Ah, there we go. How would I get an SSL certificate? This is in my app.yml btw:

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I think the part where you set up your own mail server is outside of the scope of this forum.

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Nono, not on my mail server. Like, on my actual Discourse site.

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Please follow Running other websites on the same machine as Discourse and if that fails, open a new topic.

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Hi, I’ve upgraded my local instance of Discourse to 2.9.0.beta4 and even after adding DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: “none” in my containers/app.yml file (and rebuilding the app), I still keep getting such errors:

  Rendered layouts/email_template.html.erb (Duration: 0.2ms | Allocations: 34)
Delivered mail 31c5b9eb-1077-4155-b040-314c4a8566cb@taverne.colorfulminis.com (11.3ms)
Job exception: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=error: certificate verify failed (self signed certificate)

This obviously makes my Discourse instance unable to send emails anymore.
Is there any known issue about this?

FYI: I’m running a preprod instance with 2.8.0.beta9 and exactly the same config, and emails get sent like a charm.

Thanks for your help.

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Hi Alexis,

I have the exact same problem on a VM (Ubuntu 22.04 with docker-based 2.9.0.beta4 Discourse instance). Even with DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: none in container/app.yml (and $DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE in docker environment set to none), certificate verify failed (self signed certificate) continues to be raised

Edit: fyi, stable version (2.8.3) works as expected

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For the record: enabling DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true fixed the issue on my side.