Andrea Pescetti wrote:
On 18/08/22 Dave wrote:
But I would suggest a simpler approach now: we can try and configure
an account to be used for sending mail (even a GMail account will do)
and update the site configuration to use GMail as SMTP. And then, if
it works, we replace it with a more reasonable sender, like an
apache.org address. ...
Configuring a sending account seems like a reasonable idea.
Yes, I am more than happy to help out with any necessary testing.
It took many attempts but I believe it works now. A simple way to test
it is to register a new user at
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/user/register
or request a password reset mail (that you can simply ignore) at
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/user/password
Some more details:
- I've only fixed Extensions so far, but Templates should be identical
- I tried with a GMail account created to this purpose, but it didn't
work: while I enabled POP/IMAP (and thus SMTP, I assume) in the GMail
settings, the site cannot connect to it. Port 465 is blocked on the
SourceForge side it seems, so port 587 with STARTTLS is the only viable
option; it connects, but for some reason GMail refuses credentials;
maybe websites must use the GMail API (which would be an issue, as the
application doesn't support it) to connect to GMail? Feedback welcome if
someone has already configured GMail SMTP successfully on a website.
- Then I simply created an account on a personally-owned SMTP server and
retried, with port 587 and STARTTLS. This worked for me. This is the
currently configured option, so if you are testing this is the one you
will test.
- Then I briefly tried with my ASF credentials and the ASF mail server
mail-relay.apache.org still 587/STARTTLS. It worked! But of course I
cannot leave my credentials in the site configuration so I reverted it
to the (working) option above.
Suggested steps forward:
1) We get confirmation that this is fixed not only for me
2) Then I can apply the same fix to Templates and have a fix in place,
where the only drawback is that it uses my server
3) Then I would create a new issue like the abandoned
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-21334 so that INFRA can
advise on whether we have a way to use the ASF mail server but without
storing personal credentials.
Regards,
Andrea.
Andrea
I successfully registered an account and received the congraulations
e-mail to my @apache.org address
Regards
Keith
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