I installed Ghost on an Ubuntu Linode 1 GB shared instance on Saturday. I installed it initially using ghost-cli and then migrated it to a Ghost 6.0 Docker-based install today. I am using the latest version. Now I noticed that I can’t log-in to my admin panel on a new device because email is not set…

This post might help, last paragraph probably the quickest thing to try. [image] Ghost 6.0.4 upgrade broke admin login..? Bugs Ghost introduced device verification and 2FA back in April: This requires a working mail configuration. The error message indicat…

I have set up a Mailgun account, configured DNS for my site to support Mailgun, created an SMTP user, and used msmtp with a ~/.msmtprc file to verify that I can send email from that user. Email is being sent and received using msmtp. This is my /opt/ghost/.env configuration for Dockerized Ghost: m…

I just tried to ssh into my Ghost docker container: sudo docker exec -it ghost-ghost-1 bash I installed msmtp there and copied my .msmtprc file into /root/.msmtprcI was able to successfully send and receive an email using msmtp from inside my Ghost Docker container.

Finally figured it out! When I imported my initial ghost-cli install the following got appended to the end of my .env file: mail__transport=Direct This overwrote the mail__transport=SMTP setting further up in my .env file and it broke my email configuration. I deleted this extra line of configura…

Minimal Email Setup for Ghost 6.0 Docker Instance on Ubuntu?

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ghostdan September 2, 2025, 12:04am 2

This post might help, last paragraph probably the quickest thing to try.

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Minimal Email Setup for Ghost 6.0 Docker Instance on Ubuntu?

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