EDIT: I have it working now! I had to set up DKIM and configure my server so Digital Ocean created the proper PTR records. Now email is being sent to spam but at least it’s making it through!

Hopefully this is the last time I need to bug you guys here about stuff. :)

I added a postfix relay to my Lemmy instance and configured the email settings in my lemmy.conf file but no matter what I do I keep getting a “no_email_setup” error when I try to test the SMTP server. Is there an obvious step I’m missing?

This is my full docker-compose.yml:

version: "3.3"

networks:
  lemmyexternalproxy:
  lemmyinternal:
    driver: bridge
    internal: true

services:
  proxy:
    image: nginx:1-alpine
    networks:
      - lemmyinternal
      - lemmyexternalproxy
    ports:
      # only ports facing any connection from outside
      - 80:80 
      - 443:443
    volumes:
      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
      # setup your certbot and letsencrypt config 
      - ./certbot:/var/www/certbot
      - /etc/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - pictrs
      - lemmy-ui

  lemmy:
    image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.3
    hostname: lemmy
    networks:
      - lemmyinternal
      - lemmyexternalproxy
    restart: always
    environment:
      - RUST_LOG="warn,lemmy_server=info,lemmy_api=info,lemmy_api_common=info,lemmy_api_crud=info,lemmy_apub=info,lemmy_db_schema=info,lemmy_db_views=info,lemmy_db_views_actor=info,lemmy_db_views_moderator=info,lemmy_routes=info,lemmy_utils=info,lemmy_websocket=info"
    volumes:
      - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson
    depends_on:
      - postgres
      - pictrs

  lemmy-ui:
    image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.17.3
    networks:
      - lemmyinternal
    environment:
      # this needs to match the hostname defined in the lemmy service
      - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8536
      # set the outside hostname here
      - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=localhost:1236
      - LEMMY_HTTPS=true
    depends_on:
      - lemmy
    restart: always

  pictrs:
    image: asonix/pictrs:0.3.1
    # this needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson
    hostname: pictrs
    # we can set options to pictrs like this, here we set max. image size and forced format for conversion
    # entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs -p /mnt -m 4 --image-format webp
    networks:
      - lemmyinternal
    environment:
      - PICTRS__API_KEY=API_KEY
    user: 991:991
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt
    restart: always

  postgres:
    image: postgres:15-alpine
    # this needs to match the database host in lemmy.hson
    hostname: postgres
    networks:
      - lemmyinternal
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=lemmy
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=PASSWORD
      - POSTGRES_DB=lemmy
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    restart: always
  
  postfix:
    image: mwader/postfix-relay
    networks:
      - lemmyinternal
      - lemmyexternalproxy
    environment:
      - POSTFIX_myhostname=myhostname.here
      - POSTFIX_inet_protocols=ipv4
    restart: always

And my lemmy.hjson has this block:

email: {
  smtp_server: "postfix:25"
  smtp_from_address: "Lemmy <[email protected]>"
  tls_type: "none"
}
  • jgrim of Sublinks
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    21 year ago

    Can you show your Lemmy service? Or include the entire docker-compose.yml file? Did you restart Lemmy after you updated the config?

    • @penguin_ex_machinaOP
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      11 year ago

      I updated my docker-compose.yml above to the full file. Does that help?

      • jgrim of Sublinks
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        21 year ago

        Did you restart the container after you updated the lemmy.hjson file? The container needs to reload to pickup any changes to that file. You can do docker-compose restart lemmy to restart just that single container.

        Also, you posted your database password with your config file. You should change your Database password now that it’s “leaked”.

          • @penguin_ex_machinaOP
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            21 year ago

            Done. And restarting the lemmy container appears to have helped! Now if I click “forgot password” with my email in the user field it at least shows a “sent a reset email” notification. I don’t see an email yet though, either in inbox or spam, and no error logs from what I can tell but I’ll keep looking.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Your email block doesn’t have any login details? Or did you remove them to post here? I think both the smtp_login and smtp_password are required.

    • @penguin_ex_machinaOP
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      11 year ago

      No, I didn’t have anything there. The docs say everything but the login and password are required, but because I’m using the relay package I don’t know what those would be to begin with because I’m not using an external SMTP with an account.

  • @penguin_ex_machinaOP
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    It looks like email is getting blocked because I need to set up SPF or DKIM. From my postfix logs:

    This mail is unauthenticated, which poses a security risk to the 550-5.7.26 sender and Gmail users, and has been blocked. The sender must 550-5.7.26 authenticate with at least one of SPF or DKIM.
    

    Now I’m off to figure that out!

    EDIT: It works now! Emails are currently being sent to spam but at least it’s making it to my inbox.