email not working on new server

nilesjohnson commented 1 month ago

I added a new address and put the credentials in the app config file; app gives a success message, but emails don't appear to actually send. Tried just using the webmail for that account, and those emails don't appear to send either; I don't see any warnings or error messages.

sethjohnson1 commented 1 month ago

I added rDNS and outbound email is working (tested to gmail and Office365). Do we need MX records for inbound email or does it just send?

sethjohnson1 commented 1 month ago

Update Just tested via application - the first test worked but went to spam then I changed app_local to send from test.mathmeetings.net, updated the SPF, DKIM. Will test in a day or two and see if it's improved

nilesjohnson commented 1 month ago

I checked on this just now; here's what I got:

email sent from webmail (for the no-reply account) was sent, but landed in spam, with dkim apparently not working
reply to that message (from my gmail account) was not received (after 30 min); a separate email from my gmail account also wasn't received.
new announcement on the app still doesn't send email (to single address); is there some app_local setting I need to change, or did you already do that?

About the middle item, I don't plan to receive any email to that address, but maybe it indicates some other underlying issue? I tried checking for a spam mailbox in the webmail client, but I get an error message "Cannot get options: Host is required if port is specified".

sethjohnson1 commented 1 month ago

Feel free to split this into two issues, but I think now that #25 is working the email functions need to be updated to explode/foreach

nilesjohnson commented 1 month ago

I have a simple function testEmailSend to try to test email independently of other issues.
https://github.com/sethjohnson1/conflist5/blob/752f691cc67046d75b7c45ec723d5ec634c32aed/src/Controller/ConferencesController.php#L558

It checks for the curator cookie and, if detected, re-sends the confirmation email for a given announcement, but with all the address fields (To, Cc, Bcc) replaced by Configure::read('site.test_email'). So, for example, visiting /conferences/testEmailSend/1122 should resend the email for announcement 1122. This was working on the old server, but is failing silently now.

Uncommenting the debug($mailer) line will give an error, but maybe you can use it to verify that all of the transport details are correct? (e.g., is the port correct?) Once this is working, I can try to figure out the explode/foreach issue for multiple addresses.

Separately, emailing directly from the web client does seem to be working, with dkim and spf marked correct by gmail. But, replying to that address still doesn't go through.

sethjohnson1 commented 3 weeks ago

The "transport" is a generic PHP/openssl which is why CakePHP docs don't say much about it. I still can't get verify_peer to work with a valid SSL cert OR self-issued with a CA file - I think it has something to do with LE but not sure. Doesn't matter much anyway

I set the server rDNS back to the main one, it always hits that hop on the relay anyway.

Just sent you a test, see how it does!

nilesjohnson commented 3 weeks ago

This is great!!!

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