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 ?
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"
}
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