New Server. No signup/reset emails being sent

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Carsonix
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New Server. No signup/reset emails being sent

Post by Carsonix »

Hello,

Alma Linux 9

I have a new server setup with phpBB on apache, postfix, dovecot. (Dovecot sasl authentication)

My phpBB installation works fine. My email works fine.

I have my SMTP server settings setup properly (I think) in phpbb

When I send myself a test email from within the admin panel I receive it

However when a new user signs up, or a password reset is attempted, the email is never delivered to the user.

Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong or why its not working?
Use SMTP server for email: YES
SMTP server address: mail.xxxxxxx.com
SMTP server port: 25
Authentication method for SMTP: LOGIN
SMTP username: admin (this the admin email address [email protected])
SMTP password: xxxxx (this is the admin email address password)
Verify SSL certificate: NO
Verify SMTP peer name:NO
Allow self-signed SSL certificates: YES
Last edited by Carsonix on Sat Jan 18, 2025 12:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
Carsonix
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Re: New Server. No signup/reset emails being sent.

Post by Carsonix »

I found this in the error logs...
Email error
» EMAIL/SMTP
/adm/index.php?i=acp_board&sid=0649bec49b4bb0f3cad65a8bc2431faa&mode=email

Could not connect to smtp host : 111 : Connection refused

Errno 2: stream_socket_client(): Unable to connect to ssl://mail.xxxxx.com:465 (Connection refused) at [ROOT]/includes/functions_messenger.php line 1193
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janus_zonstraal
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Re: New Server. No signup/reset emails being sent.

Post by janus_zonstraal »

Use SMTP server for email: YES
Try it with no
SMTP server port: 25
Poort 25 is a little strange try 587 or 465
Sorry! My English is bat ;) !!!
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Re: New Server. No signup/reset emails being sent.

Post by Carsonix »

Thanks, that was 50% of the solution

Kept SMTP to YES

Changed the port to 465
Added ssl:// before the server address

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