Mailgun integration not working

[Tobetanium]

I integrated Mailgun (as far as filling out all the settings and adding the mail settings to the config file as below:

“mail”: {
“transport”: “SMTP”,
“options”: {
“service”: “Mailgun”,
“host”: “smtp.mailgun.org”,
“port”: 465,
“secureConnection”: true,
“auth”: {
“user”: “postmaster@mg.mydomain.com”,
“pass”: “blahblahblahnotmyactualpass”
}
}
},

(also changed the url at the top of the config file from http to https - not sure if that’s relevant)
…but when I try sending a test mail in Labs, I get the following message:

Failed to send email. Reason: Client network socket disconnected before secure TLS connection was established.

Can anyone help me solve this mystery please?

[DavidDarnes]

Kinda guessing here but have you set up a SSL certificate for your site? Ghost has a CLI helper to do this:

Official Ghost + Let's Encrypt Integration

[Tobetanium]

Yes, I’ve got a Let’s Encrypt SSL on my domain. I’m not sure what else I can try at the moment. Here’s my config file with my Mailgun settings plugged in:

Do I actually need the smtp set up when I have my Mailgun domain and api key plugged into Ghost Labs?

[Tobetanium]

In Labs when I try to send a test email I get the following error message in the orange bar:

Failed to send email. Reason: 140204983400320:error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:…/deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/ssl3_record.c:252: .

In the Mailgun domain field in Labs, what should the domain look like?:

1. https://api.mailgun.net/v3/mg.mydomain.com or
2. mg.mydomain.com

I also get a “Please enter a valid email address” error when I enter any email address in the sign up or newsletter fields. None of the forum fixes I’ve tried seem to work so far.

[DavidDarnes]

I’ve seen some people get stuck from missing out the host being smtp.eu.mailgun.org?

Configuration - Adapt your publication to suit your needs

[Tobetanium]

I checked the other day and am using the US server so I used smtp.mail.org.

Just writing up a new post with where I’m at now.

[Tobetanium]

I managed to get the emails working! Well, mostly. Here’s a rundown of what I changed, together with screenshots that I hope might help someone in the future.

I posted my config file that didn’t work upthread. I tried removing the following two lines of code:

“port”: 587,
“secure”: false,

…and the emails started sending/working. Here’s the config file with the settings that worked for me:

I then tried sending a test email in the Labs section of Ghost:

Which resulted in this:

I checked my inbox and I had received the test email from Ghost:

Next I signed up to become a member:

Email with link to confirm subscription arrives, although it goes to promo tab in Gmail:

Looking in the Members tab of my Ghost site I see:

I then tested signing out of my members account, clicking signin, clicking on secure link which arrived in inbox, and returning to my site:

So that’s all the successes so far.

Where I’m stuck now is when I create a post to send to members, I get the message that the post has been published and sent to X members, but the email never arrives to members inboxes.

Anyway, I hope this helps someone. I still have a way to go I guess in figuring this out, but I know how much time I spent trawling other threads trying to find anything new to change and test and get things working.

[denvergeeks]

@Tobetanium Thank you for sharing your process on the forum – please do continue to post through your final resolution and what you learned.

I also use Mailgun, so it will be very helpful for me.

[DavidDarnes]

Pleased you got most of it working, and that you shared it here . The sending of posts to members is something that specifically Mailgun is used for, so it can handle the possible large bulk of emails being sent at a single time. Keep us updated and I’ll try to help out