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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

Email function for sending email from site is running

While it is still new, the site is slowly taking shape. I was able to- set up the outgoing email server so the site can not send messages to reset passwords, and also to create new accounts.

I am looking to maybe start a new Freindica discussion group, and also maybe improve the landing page for the site. I might also look at adding a relay. I read some where that for small sites,up to 5000 users, there might not be enough local traffic to have enough to read. After that, they you likely you not need a relay.

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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

Freezing rain less bad than expected - in Quebec

The other day we had an upcoming freezing rain warning. We've seen the bad effects of them in the past with downed trees and power outages for days and weeks.

Here is a local article:

montreal.citynews.ca/2026/03/1…

This was was expected and the authorities planned well in advance. We were expecting power outages. But, while there were outages, a lot less than expected.\

We were al happy about this:)


Major freezing rain storm expected to hit Montreal, prompting widespread closures

A major freezing rain storm is hitting the Montreal area Wednesday, bringing dangerous conditions, widespread closures and the potential for significant ice accumulation across southern Quebec.
News Staff (CityNews Montreal)
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Carlos Solís
Carlos Solís • friendica

NLNet Open Social fund

NLNet has a €480.000 fund to apply for #ActivityPub software, and the deadline is March 31st. Are there any developers available to apply for this?

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#activitypub !Friendica Developers
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Marcus
Marcus • friendica
Thanks for the heads up. I hope someone or multiple people apply for this, for working on Friendica!
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

Log in page - modify?

@utzer

Hi there. How have you been?

I remember long ago, back when I had my old friendica server, you post an idea or code about how to modify the long in page.

Is this code still round, or do you have any helpful advice to modify the log in page? I will ask the groups, but I recall your idea back them.

Thanks

Joseph

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utzer
utzer • friendica
Hi @Joseph Hogan, I think it is possible to place a HTML file in the basefolder for this. But I don't remember the details. See here wiki.friendi.ca/docs/initicalc… and a very good explanation in German can be found here joolsportal.de/neues-design-be…
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

!Friendica Admins

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

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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan 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 🇺🇦
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Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦 • 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.
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Anders Cornelius Madsen
Anders Cornelius Madsen • 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...

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Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦 • friendica
When you set up an own mail server, you should activate SPF and/or DKIM.
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

@Michael 🇺🇦

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

@Michael 🇺🇦
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Brian S.
Brian S. • 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.
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan 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
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Raroun
Raroun • 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
Joseph Hogan 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

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Raroun
Raroun • friendica
In the addon/phpmailer folder.
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan 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

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Raroun
Raroun • 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.
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

@Raroun

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

Thanks!!

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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan 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

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Tobias Ernst
Tobias Ernst • 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.
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

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

Thanks

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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

@Raroun

I will chek that out later today. Thanks!

@Raroun
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Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦 • friendica

!Friendica Admins Today my server ran into issues concerning php-fpm. I hope that I now solved it.

The problem: The load on my system grew and grew. I saw that some php-fpm processes took a lot of cpu time. I then figured out that these processes belonged to http requests that ended in an http error 504 (gateway timeout). it seems that after that 504 was thrown, the php-fpm process went nuts. I now set a value to the configuration request_terminate_timeout in the php-fpm configuration. This should now kill that process after some seconds. I will now see if the problem still occurs.

Do you have got similar experiences? And if yes: What was your solution?

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tom s
tom s • friendica
@Michael 🇺🇦 Only one first question: is your /tmp (or tmp-directory for friendica) on a separate partition and maybe could run out of space?
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Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦 • friendica
I've got enough space.
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

Another cold day in Montreal

Winter is coming to an end, but Jack Frost is dragging his heels. Plunged back to -15 last night. Rising to -13 today:) Heat wave:)

Looking forward to spring:)

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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan • friendica (DFRN)

New Users - manual add

!Friendica Admins

Hello all,

I am back after a bit of an absence of trying my hand at a friendica site. Previous attempts failed, but we'll try again:)

I want to be able to make a new user for my site. There does not seem to be a manual way to do it from the admin section.

I do seem to remember an add on, or some feature that we could add that would allow this. Does this (still) exist?

Thanks for any pointers.

Joseph

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Tobias
Tobias • friendica
@josephhogan you can add new users on the command line with the bin/console tool and in the moderation part of the admin control under "Configuration -> User" and then "Create User".
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

@tobias

Thanks. I was able to find it. One step closer to a usable system/

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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)

new site, trying to get it running

!Test group - Place to do test postings at Friendica

testing hoping things start to work:)

!Test group - Place to do test postings at Friendica
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Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan friendica (DFRN)
Well,let's try a reply
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