Email verification functionality

[sirodoht]

I have deployed an instance of my own PDS. I am using bsky.app as a client. On settings there is a Verify My Email button, which I click but no email is received. Am I supposed to set up SMTP on the PDS or is the client's job?

Thanks!

[devinivy]

Emails are sent from the PDS itself, so it does require a bit of configuration to get working. You can configure an SMTP server for sending email from your PDS to the accounts hosted on it:

PDS_EMAIL_SMTP_URL=smtp://...
PDS_EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=admin@...

If you don't have an SMTP server lying around, you could catch all outgoing emails by configuring it to point at something like Ethereal: https://ethereal.email/. Personal email providers sometimes also offer credentials for sending email via SMTP, e.g. gmail has some details for its support here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en

[ghost]

I would recommend resend.com if you don't have a SMTP server.

[sirodoht]

Great, thanks both!

[hyperreal64]

I would recommend resend.com if you don't have a SMTP server.

Hey, I'm using resend.com and I still can't seem to get the email verification to work. I have PDS_EMAIL_SMTP_URL=smtp://resend:<APIKEY>@smtp.resend.com:465/ defined in /pds/pds.env, but I get the following internal error:

Error: Connection timeout\n    at SMTPConnection._formatError (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/nodemailer@6.9.9/node_modules/nodemailer/lib/smtp-connection/index.js:790:19)\n    at SMTPConnection._onError (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/nodemailer@6.9.9/node_modules/nodemailer/lib/smtp-connection/index.js:776:20)\n    at Timeout.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/nodemailer@6.9.9/node_modules/nodemailer/lib/smtp-connection/index.js:235:22)\n    at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:573:17)\n    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:514:7)

The formatError bit seems to suggest it's an issue with the way the values in the PDS_EMAIL_SMTP_URL are structured. I've tried various inputs, to no avail.

[ghost]

Use port 587 instead of 465

[hyperreal64]

Use port 587 instead of 465

I've tried that. That's the default when you don't specify the port number.

[rafaeleyng]

See #86