Trouble setting up e-mail with Mailgun

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I have a brand new site and all tests are fine - new subscribers and logins are working. As soon as I am changing config.production.json to activate Mailgun everything goes down the drain.

This is my code for the SMTP set-up (using Europe/EU mailgun service)

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I also activated Mailgun within the Ghost setting using the API key provided by Mailgun. When publishsing a post I can select “sending as newsletter” and I get positive feedback from Ghost. But no mails are being processed by mailgun.

Moreover new subscribers will not be processed as soon as I implement the SMTP info in the config file.

Error log tells me it’s a 401 problem, but I can’t see any connection issues with Mailgun. Any ideas?

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here’s mine:

  "mail": {
    "transport": "SMTP",
    "from": "aratherobvioususername@spectralwebservices.com",
    "options": {
      "service": "Mailgun",
      "auth": {
        "user": "snippitysnip@mydomain.com", 
        "pass": "blahblahbalh",
      }
    }
}

I think you’re mixing up the API key directions and the SMTP directions, maybe?

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Hi @aufdemweg
we are using the one below with your user and pass :

"mail": {
    "transport": "SMTP",
    "options": {
      "service": "Mailgun",
      "host": "smtp.eu.mailgun.org",
      "port": 465,
      "secure": true,
      "auth": {
        "user": "beaugosse@mydomain.com",
        "pass": "yourpass"
      }
    }
  }
4

I found my mistake. The config set-up is correct, the trouble was in the Ghost setting.

In this box the name of the domain of your website as listed in Mailgun must be entered. And not the smtp…mailgun URL.

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Found the hint in this thread https://forum.ghost.org/t/bulk-email-for-new-post-to-free-members-doesnt-work/21730/22

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