SMTP Password not working anymore

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Hey!

Sadly I had to reconfigure my SMTP password – I have changed it in app.yml

/logs says Job exception: 535 Refused. Authentication failed. Rate limit hit or SMTP disabled.

Just tried to find my old app.yml – but I realized a backup from the Webfrontend does only collect all the pictures and the dump.sql? Hm… a bit disappointing but I guess it is how it is.

Well, anyways … the password is in " " and is correct. Domain is also correct as is user. Can anybody point me a way out of this config horror loop I am in for hours? What can I try / check / do?

Cheers

This is the Ruby error log:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:975:in `check_auth_response'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:736:in `auth_plain'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:728:in `authenticate'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:565:in `do_start'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:518:in `start'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/bundler/gems/mail-5b700fc95ee6/lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb:109:in `start_smtp_session'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/bundler/gems/mail-5b700fc95ee6/lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb:100:in `deliver!'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/bundler/gems/mail-5b700fc95ee6/lib/mail/message.rb:2141:in `do_delivery'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/bundler/gems/mail-5b700fc95ee6/lib/mail/message.rb:253:in `block in deliver'
actionmailer-6.1.3.1/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:559:in `block in deliver_mail'
activesupport-6.1.3.1/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:203:in `block in instrument'
activesupport-6.1.3.1/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:24:in `instrument'
activesupport-6.1.3.1/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:203:in `instrument'
actionmailer-6.1.3.1/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:557:in `deliver_mail'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/bundler/gems/mail-5b700fc95ee6/lib/mail/message.rb:253:in `deliver'
actionmailer-6.1.3.1/lib/action_mailer/message_delivery.rb:119:in `block in deliver_now'
actionmailer-6.1.3.1/lib/action_mailer/rescuable.rb:17:in `handle_exceptions'
actionmailer-6.1.3.1/lib/action_mailer/message_delivery.rb:118:in `deliver_now'
/var/www/discourse/lib/email/sender.rb:234:in `send'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/regular/user_email.rb:70:in `send_user_email'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/regular/user_email.rb:25:in `execute'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:232:in `block (2 levels) in perform'
rails_multisite-3.0.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:80:in `with_connection'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:221:in `block in perform'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:217:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:217:in `perform'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:196:in `execute_job'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:164:in `block (2 levels) in process'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:138:in `block in invoke'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sidekiq/pausable.rb:138:in `call'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:140:in `block in invoke'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:143:in `invoke'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:163:in `block in process'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:136:in `block (6 levels) in dispatch'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/job_retry.rb:112:in `local'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:135:in `block (5 levels) in dispatch'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq.rb:38:in `block in <module:Sidekiq>'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:131:in `block (4 levels) in dispatch'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:257:in `stats'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:126:in `block (3 levels) in dispatch'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/job_logger.rb:13:in `call'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:125:in `block (2 levels) in dispatch'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/job_retry.rb:79:in `global'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:124:in `block in dispatch'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/logger.rb:11:in `with'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/job_logger.rb:33:in `prepare'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:123:in `dispatch'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:162:in `process'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:78:in `process_one'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:68:in `run'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/util.rb:43:in `watchdog'
sidekiq-6.2.1/lib/sidekiq/util.rb:52:in `block in safe_thread'
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Did you perform a rebuild after making that change?

Any changes made to app.yml need a rebuild to come in effect.

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Yes… I always do… this is to time consuming to bug fix.

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That sounds like either your password is wrong or your mail provider is denying service.

You should be able to save a bit of time changing the SMTP password by doing a

./launcher destroy app;./launcher start app

I believe that this works for changed SMTP settings, but not all settings.

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Yes, that’s why I think too… but I’ve tried everything… I didn’t get it fixed.

this is my ENV section of the app.yml right now:

env:
  LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  # DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: en

  ## How many concurrent web requests are supported? Depends on memory and CPU cores.
  ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected CPUs, or you can override
  UNICORN_WORKERS: 2

  ## TODO: The domain name this Discourse instance will respond to
  ## Required. Discourse will not work with a bare IP number.
  DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: forum.bgh-hamburg.de

  ## Uncomment if you want the container to be started with the same
  ## hostname (-h option) as specified above (default "$hostname-$config")
  #DOCKER_USE_HOSTNAME: true

  ## TODO: List of comma delimited emails that will be made admin and developer
  ## on initial signup example 'user1@example.com,user2@example.com'
  #DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: 'bgh@forum.bgh-hamburg.de'

  ## TODO: The SMTP mail server used to validate new accounts and send notifications
  # SMTP ADDRESS, username, and password are required
  # WARNING the char '#' in SMTP password can cause problems!

  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: login
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: forum.bgh-hamburg.de
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: bgh@forum.bgh-hamburg.de
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: sdfoksdfpokasdpkopasdkfdfj
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_DOMAIN: desde.uberspace.de
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: none

The #'ed lines were sutff I already tried… but it just won’t work. I can login and receive and send without any problems with my Mail.app with those credentials (I changed them a bit so they won’t work if you try) and I also tried to connect over telnet over 587 from the host – works as expected… but still there is something wrong in my app.yml – I can’t figure it out…

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By the way…my error message in /logs has changed to:

Job exception: -ERR [AUTH] Authentication failed.

or

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I may be wrong but it looks like it would make more sense to have

SMTP ADDRESS desde.uberspace.de 
SMTP DOMAIN, your forum domain

I assume uberspace is the mail provider, usually we use the email provider smtp domain in this first setting

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Thank you so much! That solved it!

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