email set up for Ghost blog hosted on Pikapods
from Paddy66@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 19:22
https://lemmy.ml/post/37085223

Has anyone here managed to set up the email for their Ghost blog, that you hosted using Pikapods? We’re using Mailgun, but cannot get it all to work.

I’ve been trying for ages - no luck. First we’re trying to just get it to be able to send the email invite for a new staff member. won’t do that. Haven’t even got to the bulk emails yet (though I have inputted the Mailgun API key to Ghost).

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HelloRoot@lemy.lol on 04 Oct 20:16 collapse

I recently set up ghost on a regular VPS and it sends “internal” emails like 2fa and invites directly from the docker container as far as I can tell.

The sender is the server domain (and ip). (Which btw. gets flagged as spam in my case because I use that domain with tutanota…)

Only bulk/userfacing emails go through mailgun, as far as I can tell, but havent tested this yet in detail.

Maybe that helps you in debugging.

Paddy66@lemmy.ml on 05 Oct 18:40 collapse

Thank you for your help!

We have fixed it - the problem was that I had already set up DNS records so that Tuta could send emails using our website domain. This was blocking the proper set up of mailgun/transactional emails.

So we worked out how to set up emails for the business separately using the SMPT email server of our web hosting provider - et voila! Email set up works!