Make onboarding emails also work via API (not only SMTP)

Ideas
1

The following problem:

I had some issues setting up SMTP for Digital Ocean. And also other hosters, since there seems to be a tendency towards “we will not allow SMTP traffic” for a good reason. Please also refer to this thread: Use Mailgun API, instead of SMTP for onboarding-emails?

The idea here is now: Why not make ghost available to use API-calls, like the one we have with mailgun, to get the onboarding emails gone right.

Right now I can live with the “workarounds”, like using ports not suitable for SMTP. But this might be just a matter of time, since ports getting blocked.

Solution:

Make an API option for onboaring-emails as well. (like mailgun API, that is already heavily promoted).

I would assume, that this would bring a so much more flexibility to open-source hosting.

2

Ghost should support using Mailgun via API for transactional email. Can you try the configuration from this portion of the docs?

3

Vikas, the docs don’t show an example with Mailgun API, only SMTP. Might be a docs problem, though!

4

heh my bad, I saw the section and walked read right past it :upside_down_face:

Reading the wrapper code and nodemailer-mailgun-transport docs, I think something like this might work:

"mail": {
    "transport": "mailgun",
    "options": {
        "host": "<>",
        "auth": {
            "api_key": "<>",
            "domain": "<>"
        }
    }
}
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Amazing!

It absolutely works! Would be great, to have this mentioned in the docs. But at least we have now this searchable in the forums.

Thanks again!

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