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Yeah I know, I was not answering the question properly here. In my head I was thinking "best thing about computer communication" I guess. I didn't run a bbs on the internet, but I did before it. :)

Best thing about the internet was being able to find what I was looking for, before corporations wanted to monetize everything.

What's your favorite memory from the early internet? by smartwater0897 in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] smartwater0897@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

BBSes :) Because it was fantastic that we could dial eachothers computers and just share files and chat. Before that every computer were an island.

I feel the same with the fediverse now. The tech can create communities where people can talk without big tech being involved.

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Cant get email to work on my instance (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by smartwater0897@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I cant get my email sending to work on my instance. After trying for hours, i wanted to ask for some support here since im quite stuck and dont understand.

I installed Lemmy using ansible so everything is set up in a very standard way - except email.

I want my instance to send email to an external smtp server (Fastmail) whenever there is a need to send an email (user registration, password reset, etc).

Currently the email settings in lemmy.hjson looks like this:

  email: {
    smtp_server: "postfix:25"
    smtp_login: "abc@fastmail.se"
    smtp_password: "fastmail_user_password_here"
    smtp_from_address: "noreply@lemmy.today"
    tls_type: "tls"
  }

It seems like i need to have postfix:25 as the smtp server. What i really want is to put smtp.fastmail.com:465 here since thats what i want to use to send email. But that doesnt seem to work.

So I understand I need to send email through postfix, but then I wonder, how should the config look like to send emails to smtp.fastmail.com on port 465 (which is what they have on fastmail), with a specific username and password used on the fastmail server?

I think a lot of people are having issues with the email part of the setup, judging from the many reports of spinning buttons on user signup... this is a very likely reason, specially since there is no error message to the user.

Please help me sort this out, how should i configure this?

Reminder to all: Be respectful when disagreeing. by smartwater0897 in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] smartwater0897@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

First thing I read on Lemmy and it's like I've found emotionally intelligent people finally.

I saw the same thing on Mastadon, just normal people capable of handling their emotions.

Western social media (and television) is promoting the worst in people and it can make users believe everyone is insane. So it's very nice to see this being posted.

Thanks!