I’ve been trying to get some friends signed up on my lemmy instance.
The issue is, so far nobody seems to be receiving the signup/verification emails. I am getting the admin user-signup emails, but those are sent to contact@<instance-domain>. I created 2 test users, one with a instance-domain address, and one to a gmail. The instance-domain address was there within a minute, but the gmail one has yet to arrive.
Instance details:
OS: Ubuntu 22.04
Lemmy: Lemmy-Ansible install, on 0.18.0, modified to removed network settings per https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/102
Any ideas why this might be happening?
I got an email when I signed up as a test. It is most likely spam filters and/or improper email server setup. I will try to help debug in a bit.
It looks like you aren’t signing your mail with DKIM, don’t have SPF set up right, don’t have a DMARC policy, and don’t have RcRDNS, all of which basically any mail provider will require from you to even consider accepting your mail. Basically without all of that literally anyone can pretend to be whatever.com and send email from it.
What mail provider are you using?
yeah, I’m just using the default local mailserver that comes with Lemmy. the contact address is just a redirect to a gmail account. Didn’t even realize I needed all of that. I’ll probably end up just going through a smtp relay on one of their free tiers to avoid figuring this all out.
