How to modify Smtp configuration, sending fails causing a constant freeze

[LiRen]

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Your mail server doesn’t have a valid certificate for the hostname your using to access it.

See also Troubleshooting Outgoing Email

[LiRen]

What does this mean? My domain purchased an SSL certificate.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

The certificate at the smtp server doesn’t match the name you’re accessing it with.

[supermathie (Michael Brown)]

@pfaffman

Your mail server doesn’t have a valid certificate

I doubt this is the case - I’d expect an explicit error complaining about this, not “end of file” which usually means premature termination of the connection by the other side.

Give that foxmail.com mail is handled by qq.com, I suspect @LiRen is using qq as their outgoing mail server and the problem is:

@supermathie

It appears that the QQ mail server hangs up the connection prior to transmitting the acceptance of the message, so Discourse thinks it hasn’t been accepted when in reality it has.