SMTP server authentication should be optional
Dear Dmitry,
I had a lot of trouble getting Comentario to send e-mails. I couldn't understand why it didn't, especially as I had no trace to help me with the logs.
My SMTP server is configured to accept relay messages from the local network without authentication. I therefore specified the following settings in /etc/comentario/secrets.yaml:
smtpServer:
host: mail.palabritudes.net
port: 25
# username:
# password:
After much trial and error, I decided to create a real e-mail account instead of the alias I'd been using as a sender name, and then fill in the username and password attributes.
smtpServer:
host: mail.palabritudes.net
port: 25
username: comentario@palabritudes.net
password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mailing finally works!
Could you?
- If the SMTP configuration seems incomplete and disables mail sending, report this in the Comentario logs? I haven't seen anything like that.
- Make the provision of a username and password optional?