Local emailer on 1.1.2

exodo

@exodo can you post the exact errors you're receiving?

local emailer doesnt give any error

Nodebb Settings > email says this

exodo

On nodebb v7 was just install local emailer without config at all and send test email worked out of the box through postfix

PitaJ

@exodo so local emailer isn't working. Are there no errors in the log? Are you sure it's activated? What version of emailer-local is installed?

exodo

@PitaJ said in Local emailer on 1.1.2:

@exodo so local emailer isn't working. Are there no errors in the log? Are you sure it's activated? What version of emailer-local is installed?

its activated
no errors on log
i use the one from nodebb repo https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-emailer-local

exodo

just saw this on log

16/8 02:07 [22661] - warn: [emailer.smtp] Unable to send invitation email to uid 918!!
16/8 02:07 [22661] - error: [plugins] filter:email.send, Unsupported configuration, downgrade Nodemailer to v0.7.1 to use it
16/8 02:07 [22661] - warn: [emailer.smtp] Unable to send invitation email to uid 918!!
16/8 02:07 [22661] - error: [plugins] filter:email.send, Unsupported configuration, downgrade Nodemailer to v0.7.1 to use it

PitaJ

I don't know enough about the emailer to tell you what to do, calling in @julian

exodo

@PitaJ said in Local emailer on 1.1.2:

I don't know enough about the emailer to tell you what to do, calling in @julian

thank you anyways
its getting crazy to get into 1.x.x
problems with fresh install
many plugins not even listed
my plugins with dependencies on 1.0.0 or 1.1.0 not listed
many official plugins abandoned...

this one in chinesse seems updated but it doesnt work , giving some other errors
https://github.com/nnn-li/nodebb-plugin-email-smtp

julian

I wouldn't use that plugin. Local email has been available without a plugin for awhile now.

exodo

@julian said in Local emailer on 1.1.2:

I wouldn't use that plugin. Local email has been available without a plugin for awhile now.

oh thats true, it works now

pichalite

@exodo basically that's what I said in my first reply.

BuZz

@julian said in Local emailer on 1.1.2:

I wouldn't use that plugin. Local email has been available without a plugin for awhile now.

I couldn't get that working - running exim4 on Debian Jessie

The sendmail executable could not be found, please ensure it is installed and executable by the user running NodeBB.

There is a sendmail command - but it's not pathed for non root users and -

/usr/sbin/sendmail
Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents,
not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.

is there any configuration you know of to control the built in mail function ?

BuZz

Seems to work though when added to the path for the nodebb user. Still built in SMTP (or an up to date plugin) would be useful for some users I'm sure.

I was trying to use https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-emailer-local earlier, and although it worked, for every connection to exim4, exim4 complained afterwards SMTP command timeout on connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] - as though the mailer library was not closing connections to exim4 after sending.

julian

Hi @BuZz

For sendmail, on our own servers, we run the following commands:

echo "PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile

and

echo "127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain $INSTANCE_ID" >> /etc/hosts

You can see the reasoning behind the latter here: https://brianhogg.com/how-to-fix-slow-sendmail-on-a-digital-ocean-ubuntu-droplet/