Listmonk instructions are not good enough

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I installed listmonk on maillist.example.org, following the instructions for listmonk, but they did not function.

The instructions:

Visit Settings → General and replace these values:

Root URL: https://maillist.example.org
Default from email: listmonk listmonk@maillist.example.org

Visit Settings → SMTP and replace with these values:

Host: localhost
Port: 25
Auth protocol: PLAIN
User: listmonk
Password: 5fd255299ef3fbcb896d0d22
HELO hostname: maillist.example.org

Then, test the connection

However, this does not work. You get following error:

SMTP AUTH extension not found

But, if you choose
Auth protocol: None

you may send testmail, IF you are logged in as listmonk. Else you get:

553 5.7.1 <listmonk@maillist.example.org>: Sender address rejected: not logged in

But, you may send a testmail if you have been logged in as admin and change:

Default from email: listmonk admin@maillist.example.org

Usually, you would not prefer to send from xxxx@maillist.example.org, but from xxxx@example.org. Hence, it is preferable to change to:

 Root URL: https://example.org
Default from email: listmonk admin@example.org

To conclude: It looks like the instructions are not good enough.

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The app is open to PR to improve instructions

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how?

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I tried to use the “tip” but didn’t worked.
But, I not really checked how my Yunohost can send emails, because I have a server for emails.
I use Virtualmin on another VM, and I configured the “smtp” tab with the server smtp name, login and password. Worked fine

Of course, there is several tab to configure.

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Listmonk seems to work, but it seems that postfix will not accept any “default from email” (settings > general). As to my experience it works with: some-name <noreply@your-domain> and Root URL: https://yourdomain. If you use a ‘wrong’ from-email (you may change some-name) then the logs (settings > log or /var/log/mail.log) will say “Sender address rejected: not logged in”. I haven’t trailed-and-errored enough to tell more exactly which from-emails are allowed.

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Just installing this for the first time, and following the post install config.
Testing SMTP connection is failing, so further clarifications needed:

I’m assuming here that the post-install notes referencing listmonk@mysite.com means that I don’t need to manually create this address (yunohost user).

It also isn’t clear what settings should come after the HELO hostname.

With TLS set to STARTTLS, i get the following error

tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate is valid for domain.tld, not localhost

If I set Host to mysite.com

535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: (reason unavailable)

With Host set to localhost and Skip TLS verification enabled, then I get:

451 4.3.0 listmonk@list.mysite.com: Temporary lookup failure

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I have listmonk working… so we have added a user yunohost listmonk_sender with the mail listmonk_sender@list.domain.tld and in the dongle SMTP:

Host : list.domain.tld/ Port 587
PROTOCOL : Login / Name User : listmonk_sender /password : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Name Host Hello : / TLS : STARTSSL

Max Nb connexion : 10 / resend tentatives : 2 / Delay inactivity : 15s / Delay queue : 5s

But is not for a big usage…

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Be careful also if there a page to subscribe to newsletter, you could be attacked by spams robots… we have added a captcha, we have create an account with hcaptcha.com and in admin settings you can configure this account…