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  AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?
  undefined JAC

  @phenomlab oh wow . That’s laughable.

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined phenomlab

  @Panda it will use SMTP. In all cases, I never use any plugin to send email. I’ll always send it raw.

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined Panda

  Follow up question:
  Re this past comment on NodeBB
  “There are three ways to send emails from NodeBB:
  Emailer plugin. (Like sendgrid). These plugins allow you to use email distribution services like Sendgrid, MailChimp, etc to send out emails. This helps about issues of spam filtering and such, because it’s their email servers handling all of that. These plugins contact the email service via http and then the service sends your emails out.
  SMTP transport. This is built into NodeBB. It is only used if you don’t have an emailer plugin active and you enable “Enable SMTP transport” (previously “Use an external server to send emails”) in the email settings. The SMTP transport allows you to either pick from a list of known services (provided by the underlying module nodemailer) or to provide custom settings yourself. It contacts the server via SMTP and then the SMTP server sends your your emails.”

  Im still confused about which of these methods is best in theory
  When you use an internal post fix server does this use (1) Emailer plugin or (2) SMTP?

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined phenomlab

  @Panda experience, plus this

  https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279921-IMAP-POP-and-SMTP

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined Panda

  Finally it works, thanks.
  I had to regenerate the app password on fastmail, and the test email send is working.

  Out of interest, in your custom set up of fastmail, how did you know to pick SMPT port 465?

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined phenomlab

  @Panda likely because the predefined settings are out of date. Realistically, nodebb devs can’t possibly maintain correct settings for mail services they do not control.

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined Panda

  @phenomlab ok thanks will try with app password
  I wonder why it needed custom setup

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined phenomlab

  OK, after taking a look at this, I’ve done the following

  1. Set your nodebb insurance to use custom smtp and send via smtp.fastmail.com
  2. Save and test

  I now get the error

  Invalid login: 535 5.7.0 Sorry, you need to create an app password to use this service. Please see fastmail.com/help for more details.

  This means you need to configure an app inside fastmail to send emails.

  After you’ve done this, it should work

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined phenomlab

  @Panda said in Nodebb and emails:

  Im not overstating it when I say people have left nodebb because of the same headache

  It’s going to be something simple. PM me the details of your site, and also the details for your fastmail account and I’ll get it to work.

  I’ll need your fastmail login and admin access to your forum.

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  Nodebb and emails
  undefined phenomlab

  @Panda that’s a css issue I need to fix. Nothing major.