Can anyone here who successfully installed discourse with email can help me how they set up email?
If I understand correctly @sam advises to forget my install and reinstall anew with his docker setup. Since discourse is working (without email) I am reluctant to do that. Is there anyone here who installed discourse by following official installation guide including email? What did you do to make email work?
@codinghorror suggests that I sent the test email to debug (if I understand correctly) but I cannot send email. So how do I debug email so that it works?
I included by discourse.conf
and Mandrill configurations in this question.
Another question: Is the advice given in this thread still valid? (Apparently not as @Sam says don't muck with production.rb, no longer supported
I am really looking forward to people joining and using the forum but at this point no one is getting their confirmation email. Is there no way I can fix this?
Edit:
I just saw in admin that there were 4 failed attempts to send email with this error:
Net::SMTPAuthenticationError: 435 4.7.8 Error: authentication failed:
This is what I have in my discourse.conf:
hostname = "http://www.nomilkfor.me/"
smtp_address = smtp.mandrillapp.com
smtp_port = 587
smtp_domain = http://www.nomilkfor.me/
smtp_user_name = azeynel1@gmail.com
smtp_password = <my mandrill key>
smtp_enable_start_tls = true
Why is authentication failing? How can I fix it? Is my smtp_domain
correct? This is the domain I have in Mandril "sending domains" tab.