SMTP Not working

[hsitaa]

Its not Working. Specified the conf. Do i need to expose any port in Docker compose yml.

my Host machine : Centos7
running it on Docker for gitlab,

mails are working for Host machine. But when try to send mail from gitlab. Nothing happens.

1.) Do i need to install postfix on Docker machine?
2.) Do i need to expose any port.
3.) Tried using Gmail smtp as well as extrernal mailserver. : Which 1 suggested?

[hsitaa]

@sameersbn @mikew

Please help

[mikew]

Where is the server hosted? EC2? Is port 25 open?

[hsitaa]

No Local Hosted Server , but can send mail through Terminal. Yes Port 25 is open.

[lazyfrosch]

@hsitaa what have you configured for the SMTP_* environment variables?

[hsitaa]

- SMTP_ENABLED=true
- SMTP_DOMAIN=example.com  = our company domain
- SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
- SMTP_PORT=465
- SMTP_USER={{email}}  = gmail id
- SMTP_PASS={{pass}}   = gmail pass
- SMTP_STARTTLS=true
- SMTP_AUTHENTICATION=plain

@lazyfrosch

[hsitaa]

Anyone any Idea ?

[lazyfrosch]

Im relaying locally, and don't have problems:

GITLAB_EMAIL=info@example.com
SMTP_ENABLED=true
SMTP_DOMAIN=example.com
SMTP_HOST=host.example.com
SMTP_PORT=25

With your config and my gmail account I see the following error in Background jobs:

EOFError: end of file reached

Your mistake is with the SSL settings, you will need:

#SMTP_STARTTLS=true
SMTP_SSL=true

Port 465 is a normal TLS connection, no STARTTLS used there (which would be on port 25).

[patrickc91]

@hsitaa Did you ever get this issue resolved?

[sameersbn]

can you update the status? were you able to resolve the issue?

[dh1tw]

I have the same problem. Emails don´t get delivered.

[solidnerd]

@dh1tw Could you post your SMTP envvar's. So we can check it.

[sameersbn]

@dh1tw @hsitaa It would help if you could provide some basic information about your mail delivery system.

Anyways, I think this is a basic configuration issue. Consider looking through past mail delivery issues. I'm sure you'll find an answer.

• https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20sendmail
• https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20smtp
• https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20email

[YahirAlejandro]

Worked for me when set:

gitlab_rails['smtp_enable_starttls_auto'] = false
gitlab_rails['smtp_tls'] = false

Since I wasn't using TLS.
Also:

gitlab_rails['smtp_authentication'] = "plain"

Worth notting that I'm using a GoDaddy domain.

Hope that helps.

[alofeoluwafemi]

@YahirAlejandro What smpt port 25 or 465

[hsitaa]

Apologies for delayed response. I changed the setting to relay from mailserver instead Gmail SMTP. and also whitelisted gitlab server at mailserver . It worked. Thanks for all the help @sameersbn @patrickc91