Joseph Hogan

Joseph Hogan via Friendica Admins 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

Hello every one. I am slowly getting acquantied as to how to use Friendica. It is coming back

I was able to add my next user in the Moderation section, @Tobias .

Then, after created, there wa sno way that I could see, to create a password. Is there a way?

Otherwise, Isuppose I need to reset the password by trying to lgo in right?

Then, that brings be to my next step. I need ot set up the email server. Can friendica send email out of the box? Or, need configuration?

Thanks

Joseph

!Friendica Admins

Michael 🇺🇦 2 weeks ago • friendica

Per default Friendica will use the mail server that is installed on the system. The passwords are normally mailed, but you can do it via the command line as well: bin/console user.

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Joseph Hogan 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

@Michael 🇺🇦
I have a mail server on another local VM that I want to use. How can I tell Friendica to use my local server?

Once set up, I can get the welcome emails to get sent out.

Thanks!

@Michael 🇺🇦

Michael 🇺🇦 2 weeks ago • friendica

I think that there is some addon where you can do this, but I never worked with it. You could also setup your system to use another mail server as relay server.

Anders Cornelius Madsen 2 weeks ago • mastodon

@heluecht
Without knowing anything at all about your setup: Be very careful when using a local server as an outgoing mailserver.

Both Microsoft and Google are extremely picky when it comes to receiving mails from servers that are unknown to them, and they will routinely throw your emails into the unwanted mail folder if your server does not satisfy their requirements (DMARC, SPF, MX, whatnot).

If you have access to a relay server at Google or similar, using that would definitely be a better way.

Yes, I know - but principles are really not worth much if your new users never get their welcome emails...

@Michael 🇺🇦

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Michael 🇺🇦 2 weeks ago • friendica

When you set up an own mail server, you should activate SPF and/or DKIM.

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Joseph Hogan 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

@Michael 🇺🇦

I set these up already, thanks for he idea! Too many issues in the past, and I learned:)

@Michael 🇺🇦

Brian S. 2 weeks ago • friendica

Both is better, and DMARC as well for good measure. If only that worked as well, though, for everyone as it does for a select few. I route outgoing mail through AWS for deliverability purposes, and even then it sometimes goes to spam bins for no apparent reason.

Joseph Hogan 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

@Anders Cornelius Madsen

POint taken. I use a third party mail relay service. I had the same issue that you speak of, so I was forced to use a 3rd party. Thanks for the reminder

@Anders Cornelius Madsen

Raroun 2 weeks ago • friendica

Terhe is an addon called "PHPMailer". In the Addon folder there´s a config where you can specify a smtp-server of your choice.

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Joseph Hogan 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

@Raroun

I instald the add on. Ihere is a config, but I am not uite sure where it is.

Where do I fund the config file? It says: config/someconfigfile

where is that file located? I can reach it from th eGUI,or this is a command line excersize?

Thanks

Joseph

@Raroun

Raroun 2 weeks ago • friendica

In the addon/phpmailer folder.

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Joseph Hogan 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

@Raroun

Question,? if I make this change, will be permanent even after I upgrade to a newer version via docker?
yes, great. If not, if there a way to configure the phpmailer another way to be more long term configure?

Thanks

Joseph

@Raroun

Raroun 2 weeks ago • friendica

@josephhogan
i really don´t know.
But if you make a backup of the php-mailer config file, you can just overwrite the one in docker after an update.
This should work.

@Joseph Hogan

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Joseph Hogan 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

@Raroun

This is an option, yes. We will see if any other comments by others my give new ideas.

Thanks!!

@Raroun

Joseph Hogan 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

Just checking to see if there is any one else with ideas on how to make the email server config pernemant so that it will not be reset by an update. Ideas?

@utzer @Michael 🇺🇦 @Tobias Ernst

Maybe ask in another group?

Thanks

Joseph

@Michael 🇺🇦 @Tobias Ernst @utzer

Tobias Ernst 2 weeks ago • friendica

@Joseph Hogan @Michael 🇺🇦 @utzer @Raroun I can only share my solution: I did not configure anything for mail inside friendica at all. I simply installed nullmailer on the Linux VM in which my Friendica instance runs, and configured it to use some external e-mail provider with SMTP over SSL and my credentials with this provider. The result is that the mails come in with from-addresses that one cannot reply to (www-data@ the actual hostname that runs my friendica server, which is not in public DNS), but so far, since I run a single user instance, this does not bother me.

@Joseph Hogan @Michael 🇺🇦 @Raroun @utzer

Joseph Hogan 3 days ago friendica (DFRN)

I was able to work out my phpmailer and it is working. One step closer to getting my site running well.

Thanks

Joseph Hogan 2 weeks ago friendica (DFRN)

@Raroun

I will chek that out later today. Thanks!

@Raroun

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