Can't set up smtp

Using Ghost
1

I’m trying to set email sending on Ghost running inside docker (behind reverse proxy and cloudflare).

I’m using smtp2go as an smtp provider and I use credentials that work in other container (Bookstack). Here are the variables I pass to container:

mail__from: user@mydomain.com
mail__options__auth__user: username
mail__options__auth__pass: password
mail__options__host: mail.smtp2go.com
mail__options__port: 465
mail__options__secure: true
mail__options__service: smtp2go
mail__options__transport: SMTP

Here are the errors I see in the logs when attempting to send message:

[2024-08-09 16:44:06] ERROR "POST /ghost/api/admin/invites/" 500 2865ms

Error sending email: Failed to send email. Reason: Sending failed. Please check your email settings and resend the invitation.

"Please see https://ghost.org/docs/config/#mail for instructions on configuring email."

Error ID:
    97b72c10-566e-11ef-9a09-ade95c20340c

----------------------------------------

Error: Sending failed
    at createMailError (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/core/server/services/mail/GhostMailer.js:105:12)
    at DirectMailer.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/nodemailer-direct-transport/lib/direct-transport.js:157:41)
    at DirectMailer.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/nodemailer-direct-transport/lib/direct-transport.js:228:30)
    at /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/nodemailer-direct-transport/lib/direct-transport.js:350:28
    at callback (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/smtp-connection/lib/smtp-connection.js:374:14)
    at SMTPConnection.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/smtp-connection/lib/smtp-connection.js:385:20)
    at SMTPConnection._actionRCPT (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/smtp-connection/lib/smtp-connection.js:1313:20)
    at SMTPConnection.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/smtp-connection/lib/smtp-connection.js:1265:26)
    at SMTPConnection._processResponse (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/smtp-connection/lib/smtp-connection.js:669:16)
    at SMTPConnection._onData (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.89.0/node_modules/smtp-connection/lib/smtp-connection.js:493:10)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:517:28)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:domain:489:12)
    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:368:12)
    at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:341:9)
    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:278:10)
    at TLSWrap.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:190:23)

Has anyone managed to set up Ghost with smtp2go or any ideas what am I doing wrong?

2

The logs mentioned TLS, so I checked their support pages.

SMTP port: 2525 (or 80, 25, 8025 or 587 if that doesn’t work).

You need to set the port to 587 not 465 (which is depreciated anyway), and secure to false.

3

tried that and it didn’t work. Tried using the recommended Mailgun service and still can’t get it to work. I get:

[2024-08-18 20:51:37] ERROR "POST /ghost/api/admin/invites/" 500 150ms

Error sending email: Failed to send email. Reason: D8190C64F77F0000:error:0A00010B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/ssl3_record.c:354:
. Please check your email settings and resend the invitation.

Environment section of my compose file looks like this:

    environment:
      url: https://domain.com
      mail__transport: SMTP
      mail__options__service: Mailgun
      mail__options__host: smtp.eu.mailgun.org
      mail__options__port: 587
      mail__options__auth__user: noreply-ghost@domain.com
      mail__options__auth__pass: somepass