phpmailer config

[jakedfw]

Hi all, I'm still having email issues and am trying phpmailer. Everytime I update the config file though the site crashes and wont' run. Here's my addon.config.php file. The first thing I noticed is that phpmailer file doesn't have the login password. Where should that go? Also, would the lack of a password crash the site? If not, what is doing it?

<?php

// Addon configuration

// Copy this configuration file to addon.config.php and edit it if you want to configure ad>

'phpmailer' => [
    // smtp (Boolean)
    // Enables SMTP relaying for outbound emails
    'smtp' => true,

    // smtp_server (String)
    // SMTP server host name
    'smtp_server' => 'smtp-relay.smtpprovider.com',

    // smtp_port (Integer)
    // SMTP server port number
    // 'smtp_port' => 587,

    // smtp_secure (String)
    // What kind of encryption to use on the SMTP connection.
    // Options: '', 'ssl' or 'tls'.
    'smtp_secure' => 'tls',

    // smtp_port_s (Integer)
    // Secure SMTP server port number
    'smtp_port_s' => 587,

    // smtp_username (String)
    // SMTP server authentication user name
    // Empty string disables authentication
    'smtp_username' => 'jake@emailaddress.com',

[MrPetovan]

See the full range of available configuration keys: https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/blob/develop/phpmailer/config/phpmailer.config.php

There is smtp_password as well.

[MrPetovan]

When there's a crash, there should be an entry in PHP's log or your web server log. Please peruse these for errors related to phpmailer.

[jakedfw]

Oops. I had it configured with all those options, and it still didn't work. Formatted correctly, too. I checked for the logs via the Friendica UI but it was empty. I'll check the logs directory.

Thanks!

[MrPetovan]

The Friendica log sometimes won't show anything if there's a crash before the Friendica logger is instantiated. In this case, the fallback log is the web server's or php-fpm log.

[TheNomad11]

Had same issue here, the reason it didn't work was that the configuration part within friendica admin panel was incomplete. Copying and pasting it from https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/blob/develop/phpmailer/config/phpmailer.config.php solved the issue.

return [

was missing, and the closing

];

[TheNomad11]

Nevertheless, Friendica does not use phpmailer but insists using mail or sendmail. How can I troubleshoot this? Or would it be better installing postfix with external smtp?

[MrPetovan]

If you don't want to install Postfix because you don't need the mail reception features, I've been using ssmpt with an external SMTP server (Fastmail) with success.

[TheNomad11]

Thanks a lot, @MrPetovan I was not aware of ssmpt, It is really as easy as described here? https://en.acodeof.com/install-ssmtp-ubuntu/ I will have a try later today. Maybe we should add it to the Friendica docs?

[MrPetovan]

It is easy enough that I was able to set it up by myself. I'm a decent programmer, but I'm not a good system administrator, so it's a good metrics for how easy it is. And you're so welcome to add it to the Friendica docs once you managed to do it!

[TheNomad11]

Thanks so much, you were right, I've made it, yeah!