Help with AmazonSES setup

[evrpress]

I'm not able to get emails from my self hosted installation (Is there a way to test emails?

I try to reset password to test the email functionality but no email arrives although the account exists:

Here's part of my settings: (Settings are correct, they work somewhere else)

[email protected]
SMTP_HOST_ADDR=email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
SMTP_HOST_PORT=587
SMTP_USER_NAME=***
SMTP_USER_PWD=***
SMTP_HOST_SSL_ENABLED=false

running docker logs --tail 100 874fbcd05b84 on the SMTP container returns that

    1 LOG: MAIN
    1   exim 4.89 daemon started: pid=1, -q30m, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv6 and IPv4)

Where should I start?

[ruslandoga]

👋 @evrpress

The mail container isn't needed since Amazon SES would be acting as the relay / smart host. You just need to set the relevant env vars for plausible container and it should work.

[ruslandoga]

Are they part of plausible-conf.env? If so, they look correct :) Note that if you initially started the container without them, you'd need to recreate the container for the new env vars to take effect.

[ruslandoga]

To send an email manually, you can try doing it from within the app

$ cd hosting
$ docker compose exec plausible bin/plausible remote

iex> # let's first check the config
iex> Application.get_env(:plausible, Plausible.Mailer)
iex> # note you'd need to replace from and to with actual addresses
iex> email = Bamboo.Email.new_email(from: "...", to: "...", subject: "test", text_body: "test")
iex> Plausible.Mailer.deliver_now(email)

[evrpress]

oh, yes! This is the command to redo the containers

docker-compose down --remove-orphans && docker-compose pull plausible && docker-compose up -d

Thanks a lot this helped!

[mister-px]

I'm having a similar problem, no mail gets delivered through Amazon SES: I'm not using the "mail" service in docker-compose.yml,
and I correctly configured the env variables, as i can read them correctly in the Application.get_env(:plausible, Plausible.Mailer) test line.
After sending the test email with Plausible.Mailer.deliver_now(email), i receive this:

15:59:49.064 [warning] Description: 'Server authenticity is not verified since certificate path validation is not enabled'
     Reason: 'The option {verify, verify_peer} and one of the options \'cacertfile\' or \'cacerts\' are required to enable this.'

{:error,
 {:permanent_failure, 'email-smtp.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com',
  "530 Authentication required\r\n"}}

I understand the warning is not a problem, but the 530 is. Also, in the AWS console the credentials show up as "Never used", so i guess they are not sent while opening the connection with the SMTP.

Any advice?

[mister-px]

Moved to a dedicated discussion (#3757)