[Help needed] issue self hosting lemmy and email smtp - eviltoast

I am trying to setup my own lemmy server. I used ansible.

I can access my server via my domain just fine. But emails are not working.

First i had my mail and mx records pointing to privateemail via namecheap.

Then i tried using cloudflare email routing and their mx records.

neither worked for me with error connecting.

I thought maybe using dovecot? But self hosting email is new to me

I was hoping to use namecheaps privateemail but wasn’t sure how to get it working.

The email account worked and can send / receive but Lemmy and postfix cannot communicate with it.

Now I have no Mx records as I’m not sure what I should be using I am sure I am missing something obvious but idk what

Any ideas ?

  • Morethanevil@lmy.mymte.de
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    1 year ago

    Could you help me with the setup of the SMTP via lemmy.hjson?

    Mine looks like this:

    email: {
        smtp_server: "smtp.domain.de:465"
        smtp_login: "admin@domain.de"
        smtp_password: "secretpass"
        smtp_from_address: "admin@domain.de"
        tls_type: "tls"
      }
    
    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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      1 year ago

      That really should work, I would check for potential firewall issues or something.

      Mine is basically identical to yours:

      email: {
          smtp_server: "mail.h.max-p.me:465"
          smtp_login: "lemmy@max-p.me"
          smtp_password: "REDACTED"
          smtp_from_address: "lemmy@max-p.me"
          tls_type: "tls"
        }
      

      It’s possible your server is slightly misconfigured and actually serve plain traffic on 465 and requires the use of the STARTTLS command.

      Can you reach your server with openssl?

      openssl s_client -connect smtp.domain.de:465
      

      This should end up with something like that:

          Start Time: 1688422790
          Timeout   : 7200 (sec)
          Verify return code: 0 (ok)
          Extended master secret: no
          Max Early Data: 0
      ---
      read R BLOCK
      220 hosting.max-p.me ESMTP Postfix