Mail Setup Using Zoho

trellis
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I am trying to get mail setup using Zoho. Has anyone done this successfully?

After configuring my mail.yml and re provisioning the server I get 504 bad gateway.

I try to submit a form from gravity forms and test resetting password and get the same error for both. Not sure what I am missing here.

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I also noticed that in my mail.yml I have mail_admin but there is no reference to this in the Docs.

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Did you read the Trellis documentation?

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Yes I did read it. Unless I missed something in the mail section. As far as I can tell all my settings look fine but something has to not be configured right.

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Any log entries when WP attempts to send an email (e.g. the forgot password email)?

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It’s just standard SMTP so I doubt it’s Trellis itself. Make sure you have the credentials and settings correct.

Here are Zoho docs: https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/zoho-smtp.html#alink3

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I’m back on this today so I will make sure I have all the correct info and try again.

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What should the mail_admin be? In the docs for trellis mail there is nothing talking about this.

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How can you possibly troubleshoot a mail issue without examining your logs?

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Im looking into the logs right now. Just trying to figure out how to do this in Digital Ocean

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Sorry for asking these questions but this is the first time I have had to setup emails this way. So I’m kind of learning as I go here.

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Here is what I am seeing in the log

Jun 21 18:32:12 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[9226]: Invalid response SMTP Server (STARTTLS)
Jun 21 18:32:12 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[9226]: Cannot open smtp.zoho.com:465
Jun 21 18:33:36 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[9232]: Invalid response SMTP Server (STARTTLS)
Jun 21 18:33:36 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[9232]: Cannot open smtp.zoho.com:465
Jun 22 02:38:03 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[10968]: Creating SSL connection to host
Jun 22 02:40:13 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[10968]: Invalid response SMTP Server (STARTTLS)
Jun 22 02:40:13 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[10968]: Cannot open smtp.zoho.com:465
Jun 22 13:14:46 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[16194]: Creating SSL connection to host
Jun 22 13:14:47 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[16194]: SSL connection using RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1
Jun 22 13:14:49 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[16194]: 553 Relaying disallowed as WordPress <wordpress@friendlystorewyo.com>
Jun 22 13:23:30 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[18428]: Creating SSL connection to host
Jun 22 13:23:31 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[18428]: SSL connection using RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1
Jun 22 13:23:31 friendlystorewyo sSMTP[18428]: Authorization failed (535 Authentication Failed)

I have to be missing something zoho. I will keep digging but if anyone has a suggestion please let me know. Thanks for the help.

Here are my settings in mail.yml

mail_smtp_server: smtp.zoho.com:587
mail_admin: support@friendlystorewyo.com
mail_hostname: friendlystorewyo.com
mail_user: support@friendlystorewyo.com
mail_password: "{{ vault_mail_password }}" # Define this variable in group_vars/all/vault.yml
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I got the standard wordpress emails working.

The weird part here is that the email that is specified in the log is wordpress@friendlystorewyo.com. I never created this and as you can see from my mail.yml settings it should be support@friendlystorewyo.com.

Changing this to wordpress@friendlystorewyo.com allowed the other emails to work but where does this email even come from. Is there another setting somewhere that I am missing. I have scoured the files and cannot find anything yet. I did a file search and there in no reference to wordpress@friendlystorewyo.com.

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You might have to change that from address in WP itself? Check https://tommcfarlin.com/smtp-server-in-wordpress/ for details.

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For anyone else arriving in this thread, here’s a simple explanation & a way of changing the sender email:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/wp_mail_from

add_filter('wp_mail_from', function($email) {
  return get_option('admin_email');
});