I have a fully working Discourse installation (installed using the recommended approach) on a server (Linode) running Ubuntu. I can send email without issue and do new user sign-up. We are using this feature Configuring incoming email to create new topics or group messages : Discourse needs to prov…

If you enable mailgun_log_rejections and send another email, there should be a rejection reason in your sidekiq logs (mailgun does not retain the response body so this is basically the only way) and that should tell you. Otherwise you can use the mail-receiver setup if you would rather do that.

Hi @Wolftallemo thanks for the excellent plugin :slight_smile: I did check /logs but could not see anything related to this issue. I’m not sure if this is the correct place to read the sidekiq logs or not? I would prefer to get the plugin working, might give it a few more days before attempting th…

Yes that is where they would be, although that’s unusual. I would start with checking the inbound spam filter. It’s possible it’s set to not filter on mailgun’s end. If this is the case, I would either: Change inbound spam filtering on mailgun’s end to add the spam headers (which is in domain se…

Hello, Those settings already seem to be in place. This is probably something very dumb I am doing. I had a quick go with the mail-receiver; the only issue is I am running behind a Traefik reverse proxy, so I will no doubt need a few attempts to get that to work with all the required docker compose…

Are you successfully receiving bounces from mailgun by any chance? The only two reasons it would be getting rejected without a log are either: you have the wrong key set (it specifically has to be the webhook signing key) or you don’t have it set at all. Would double-check if you accidentally set s…

The mail receiver works on port 25,so treafik does not need to know about it.

I already changed my MX records now so to avoid another 24-hour delay, I’m going to persevere with the mail-receiver approach. [image] Jay Pfaffman: The mail receiver works on port 25,so treafik does not need to know about it. This simplifies things very much. In this case, I can more or les…

How to configure Discourse to receive email from Mailgun?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 23, 2025, 7:43pm 2

The easiest and recommended way is to Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver

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How to configure Discourse to receive email from Mailgun?

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