Configuring exim4 for Discourse

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Hello everyone!

So far, I managed the following:

  • Got my website to work in Hestia with SSL
  • Got my emails to work in Hestia with proper TLS certificate from Let’s Encrypt
  • Successfully installed Discourse with nginx as a reverse proxy

Now I am configuring Discourse and I noticed that it fails in sending emails. I get 451 Temporary Local Problem.

May I ask you, without going through this headache myself, how did you get Discourse to work with Hestia mail? Which configuration did you use?

Thank you in advance!

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Hi delta

Thanks for your request, settings are quiet easy, we use the hostname for the smtp communication, a small sample out of our config:

  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: server.domain.tld
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: [email protected]
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: YourPasswordOnlyCharsAndNumbers
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true           # (optional, default true)

Then rebuild the container and you should be fine.

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Hello ScIT,

Turns out you can’t use an email different from the discourse domain. In my case, I was trying to use [email protected] instead of [email protected].

Thank you for your response! Hope this will help some more people.

Also, Hestia is wonderful, keep up the good work!

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Glad you found the solution, thanks also for reporting it back!