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PieFed Instance Not Sending E-mails? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 months ago by Phoenix1@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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As the topic would suggest I've run into another problem with PieFed...I have Mailgun set up as my SMTP host for password resets and the like, the password to my knowledge is correct as I've tested the configuration out in a separate Python script and it logged into smtp.mailgun.org successfully on port 587.

Has anyone else set up Mailgun or similar external SMTP hosting that may be able to help debug the issue?

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[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've also tried setting up SMTP, but gave up. I just could never get it to work. Not sure whether the docs are just lacking or whether it might be a bug.

[–] Phoenix1@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Goodness, how do you handle password resets and the like? Unfortunately I won't be able to operate a PieFed server without SMTP support, but I haven't been able to figure out what the issue is like yourself.

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 1 points 2 months ago

Single user instance*, I guess I'd do that using SQL as the UI does not allow me to reset it. But I could also just change it, I know I don't lose my passwords.

*actually two human users, but the other human knows I cannot easily reset it

[–] thebluehydrangea@thebluehydrangea.org 1 points 2 months ago

Out of curiosity was yours a bare metal or Docker installation? I had the exact same problem with the bare metal install, but with Docker the same mail configuration worked flawlessly. Perhaps the bare metal install documentation is missing a step?