I recently went through the emails:task and related code with the aim of testing each of the failure codepaths and touching up the error text. I also discovered that the effects of setting DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS=false are (mostly) nil. Setting this didn’t actually disable STARTTLS and in f…

Reworking the emails:test rake task output

pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj) November 5, 2025, 5:11pm 5

No, this alert shouldn’t show up on our hosting. We’ll fix it, thanks for the report as always.

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