@PitaJ

That sounds amazing, we're definitely waiting for this plugin, it looks awesome!!

@Jam Yeah I can see this plugin getting some important usage for a lot of forums using NodeBB, including ours

Hi, maybe you can try what I did... it might help you https://community.nodebb.org/topic/8677/nodebb-plugin-emailer-local-configuration-or-usage-problems/13

Final update, it worked on the production server!! so now our forum is working properly sending emails the Linux way on a Windows Server OS, quite nice I would say, just as a side note our forum is actually really small in number of users, as it is an internal forum, so I can't assure this setup will work out to other forum's expectations or needs, also I would like to add that this shouldn't be the way to do it on Windows as it is kind of a weird way to handle it so in later versions it would be nice to see it reworked or polished for Windows environments (especially because it looks like the program used to simulate sendmail on Windows is no longer receiving maintenance).

@techabyte I can't tell you if it would work, what I can tell you is that it looks like the plugin itself is not necessary, you can just relay on sendmail to do the SMTP stuff.

@pichalite Thank you!!

Hi, does anyone knows which Skins work entirely with this Theme? some can't be use at all because of the colors.

Update number 2!! It works!!!! the same setup looks like it works, at the end I left only the sendmail on the "C:\usr\sbin" folder and that mixed with running NodeBB as administrator.... looks like that was it for it to work, so... that's on a test server, will update again if all goes fine on the production server!

Update here if anyone has any ideas.... I installed something that is like a fake sendmail for Windows (www.glob.com.au/sendmail/), I validated that I'm able to send emails through Office365 SMTP service and that the emails reach their destination by using this fake sendmail, but these test emails are sent through a CMD command using a template (sendmail -t < %TEMP%\temp.mail) and this sendmail.exe program and its .ini are located in "C:\usr\lib" and just to make sure I put it here as well "C:\usr\sbin" but anyways it just didn't work, NodeBB still outputs the message "Error spawn sendmail ENOENT"... does anyone have any ideas? I really need to send emails through Office365 and we can only deploy the forum on a Windows server.

@julian alright... I'll keep trying on my side to get this working, although I will suggest if you guys can come up with a way to simplify or standardize this setup at least for Windows because we can't be the only ones who need to send mails using smtp and having all infrastructure setup on Windows ... right ? thanks for all the help and I'll keep on setting this up!! by the way I'm trying to use this Sendmail version for windows:
http://www.glob.com.au/sendmail/
 
I hope this works somehow.

Hi, I've tried already to set this up, but I can't understand how NodeBB uses the sendmail program, does anyone has a complete installation guide or setup at least on Linux? thanks

@frissdiegurke @julian Ok, I'll give it a try and see if we can get it working that way, thank you both.

Any ideas then why do I get this? (after removing the emailer plugin), just to clear this out we have NodeBB running on a Windows Server (can't remember the edition).

Hello, I have been trying to set up a mailing option for our forum that is local... or at least lets us use Office365 or Google and I've been looking into this plugin:

nodebb-plugin-emailer-local-bobo

NodeBB plugin to send emails via an SMTP service. Latest version: 0.2.3, last published: 9 years ago. Start using nodebb-plugin-emailer-local-bobo in your project by running `npm i nodebb-plugin-emailer-local-bobo`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using nodebb-plugin-emailer-local-bobo.

npm (www.npmjs.com)

 
https://github.com/popu125/nodebb-plugin-emailer-local

 
But I can't get this to work, I try to setup everything with the data that it needs but every single attempt it just says Authentication unsuccessful:
 

 
Anyone here uses this plugin? is it up to date and in a working state? has anyone configure it to work on a local mailing server or something like Office365?

Thanks for the time.

This topic might be helpful for you:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/8090/running-nodebb-on-iis

Maybe... just maybe we could get a subset of this forum, after all it is the official forum used for testing things by NodeBB team, I guess ... so maybe a small part of the data and a list of all of the required plugins or configurations to get it running (hopefully updated with each stable version released)... but the idea sounds really good.

@baris well finally managed to get it working, I was missing to accept merging the branch when doing the pull.... but that was not enough as now it was showing me a problem with the widget essentials... so I checkout the commit for "up widget essentials" and that fixed it for me!!

Thank you for your time @baris

@baris thank you for helping me, well I did the "git checkout v1.x.x" and accordingly to GitExtensions "Already on 'v1.x.x' Your branch is behind 'origin/v1.x.x' by 145 commits, and can be fast-forwarded." so.... I don't get exactly what to do... is it that the fix for this issue is still not on the stable version of the forum? or that I should be moving to a different branch?

Hello! I want to upgrade our forum to v1.x.x but when I try.... this is what happens.... it just gets stuck on the line "Global Moderators group found, skipping creation!" and no matter how long I leave it there it never skips that, so I'm not able to finish the "nodebb setup" process, anyone has an idea of what am I missing or what could be causing the problem? by the way I'm on MongoDB 3.2.1 and prior to running "nodebb setup" I do first "nodebb upgrade" then "npm update" and then try the setup.

C:\NodeBB>nodebb setup
15/3 09:04 [3948] - info: NodeBB v1.0.0 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
15/3 09:04 [3948] - info: This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
15/3 09:04 [3948] - info: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistri
bute it under certain conditions.
15/3 09:04 [3948] - info:
15/3 09:04 [3948] - info: NodeBB Setup Triggered via Command Line

Welcome to NodeBB!

This looks like a new installation, so you'll have to answer a few questions abo
ut your environment before we can proceed.
Press enter to accept the default setting (shown in brackets).
URL used to access this NodeBB (http://201.205.239.41:4567)
Please enter a NodeBB secret (119e12a8-0734-4932-9873-9db09c1a37c1)
Which database to use (mongo)

15/3 09:06 [3948] - info: Now configuring mongo database:
Host IP or address of your MongoDB instance (127.0.0.1)
Host port of your MongoDB instance (27017)
MongoDB username (nodebb)
Password of your MongoDB database
Which database to use (nodebb)
Configuration Saved OK
15/3 09:06 [3948] - info: [database] Checking database indices.
Populating database with default configs, if not already set...
Previous theme detected, skipping enabling default theme
Categories OK. Found 8 categories.
Administrator found, skipping Admin setup
15/3 09:06 [3948] - info: Global Moderators group found, skipping creation!

Thank you for taking the time!

@pichalite Thank you, we'll go and try this out and see if this works for us.

Which by the way when you setup the forum (./nodebb setup) the process asks you for the address for the forum... anyone knows if I would have to put http://www.companywebsite.com/Forum in there so any links on the forum send people to the public address? or this would create problems?