SMTP mailer not active (or to be activated)

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Hi,

Changing from hosted to docker version of TT-RSS (yes, I’m late to the party but it worked great all the time).
Love the ‘out-of-the box’ experience with docker, worked with the minimal steps till I wanted to activate my email digest (no morning coffee without).

I want to activate SMTP mailer but a little confused about the right steps.
Followed the manual on tt-rss/ttrss-mailer-smtp: SMTP mailer plugin for tt-rss based on PHPMailer - ttrss-mailer-smtp - Tiny Tiny RSS

  1. Updated tt-rss install to version v22.12-c30b24d09
  2. plugin on var/www/html/tt-rss/plugins.local/mailer_smtp verified
  3. added TTRSS_PLUGINS=mailer_smtp to .env
  4. Added the SMTP data to the .env file for my docker-compose installation.

But on the preferences\plug-ins page I have a grey tick for the mailer_smtp plugin and a green one for nginx_xaccel and auth_internal (but I have not defined that in .env)

When I try to send a testmail the following error is triggerd by classes/mailer.php:59
Error sending mail: Unknown error while sending mail. Hooks tried: 0.

  1. classes/mailer.php(59): user_error(Error sending mail: Unknown error while sending mail. Hooks tried: 0.)
  2. classes/mailer.php(51): set_error(Unknown error while sending mail. Hooks tried: 0.)
  3. classes/pref/system.php(25): mail([{“to_name":“”,“to_address”:"[email protected]”,“subject”:“Test message from tt-rss”,“message”:“This message confirms that tt-rss can send outgoing mail.”})
  4. backend.php(136): sendTestEmail()

Real IP: 77.xxx.xxx.xxx
Forwarded For: 77.xxx.xxx.xxx
Forwarded Protocol: https
Remote IP: 172.xxx.xxx.xxx
Request URI: /tt-rss/backend.php
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

Tried with some variants on line number 3. the TTRSS_PLUGINS line but that gave errors or blank pages.
Tested with a fresh download from the ttrss-mailer-smtp plugin. No change, same behaviour

Looks like I’m missing the last bit of the puzzle.
Who can help me with the last clue to resolve it?

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did you recreate the container afterwards? docker compose down, up? looks like TTRSS_PLUGINS didn’t take.

dev-debian:ttrss-docker-dev (master):$ grep PLUGINS .env
TTRSS_PLUGINS=auth_oidc,auth_internal,data_migration,mailer_smtp,cache_s3

here’s an example of how this should look like. don’t forget about auth_internal too.

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I’ve got a green checkmark with smtp_mailer :blush:

  • added ‘auth_internal,’ to my TTRSS_PLUGINS line (so it is now ‘TTRSS_PLUGINS=auth_internal,mailer_smtp’

AND

  • did a proper ‘docker down’ before my normal ’ docker-compose up -d’

and after that it’s working!

Now I get a proper ‘Error sending mail: SMTP connect() failed’ messages in the log but that’s other debuging work I will work on.

Normal I do only a ‘docker-compose up -d’ and seems to do a restart and gives a new container id so it is also possible that one plugin is not working but two is the minimum.

Thanks

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And the SMTP error is solved too (mixed up the portnumber of IMAP and SMTP) so I’m a happy bunny tonight.