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I used the ansible method to install Lemmy on a DigitalOcean VPS. They do block port 25 and there is no way around that. I tried to change the port from 25 to 465 in the config.hjson file but still no luck. I am super new to this but I want to get this working so bad. I'm so close! The site is working fine, just no emails. I've checked spam, trash, etc. - nothing is getting sent.

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[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Register for the free account on sendgrid.com and use their port 587.

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any chance you wouldn't mind walking me through how to set up Lemmy to do that? Any guide or reference would be appreciated.

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is a script called lemmy easy deploy.

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy/tree/main

You would setup the free plan for sendgrid.com

Their server setting are an ID, password, servernane and port you would put in the config file.

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy/blob/main/config.env.example

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The dev for lemmy-easy-deploy has already said that they do not support SMTP now and will not going forward... So I didn't spend any more time with that.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check the logs of your postfix instance

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to get that using:

 sudo docker compose logs postfix

and it just responds:

 no configuration file provided: not found

Any ideas?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since you're getting logs via docker compose you should either be in the directory that holds docker-compose.yml or specify the full path to the file using -f flag.

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh shoot, that makes sense. Now I just have to figure out where ansible puts that...

[–] nix@merv.news 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Use mailgun free account or something similar. If you don’t your emails will land in spam even if you do get it working on a vps (which many including DigitaOceam dont allow emails due to spam)

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any chance you wouldn't mind walking me through how to set up Lemmy to do that? Any guide or reference would be appreciated.

[–] nix@merv.news 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't remember exactly since it was long ago but i believe its: make a mailgun account (make sure you disable the free trial so it doesnt automatically sign you up for the paid service) generate a new mailbox and save the info it gives you and in your config.hjson add your smtp server "smtp.mailgun.org:465", smtp login: "postmaster@mailgun.example.com", smtp password: "randomcharacters", a from_address like: "Lemmy noreply ", and set the tls type to "tls"

If thats all the steps let me know so I can make a request to have it added to the wiki of https://lemmyadmin.site

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you running the zerobytes monster instance?

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what that is so I'd assume not. I used the Lemmy ansible guide by the numbers, so if that is what the guide uses then yes, otherwise no.