@shraga100 said in All NodeBB Emails Using Gmail Service Landing in Spam Folder: > Hey everyone, > I've recently set up my NodeBB forum and I'm having a really frustrating issue with the email system. > Basically, I've configured NodeBB to send registration emails and updates using my Gmail account (with an "app password" for authentication). I left all the email templates with their default settings thinking they'd work fine out of the box. If you are using a regular GMail type account ([email protected]) that is not unexpected and something you will have no control over. To get best delivery when using a Gmail related account, you are going to need to be using their Google Workspace offering ( a paid offering) in which you set up accounts for each user you need to use for a domain (your noreply address, a user address and then an admin address which is already around $22). I found that to be rather expensive and ended up instead setting up a MailCow-Dockerized instance on a VPS and use it for all my NodeBB instances. I get good delivery since the VPS provider I run it on has a clean IP for that instance and overall their IP range is not blocked (which is surprising since they are not a high dollar VPS provider). I have a rather "limited" thread going on a site that I doubt will get any traction, but you are welcome to check out what I have relayed. And if interested I don't mind extending help there. https://redneckhost.com/topic/12/preferred-precompiled-mta-package @eeeee said in All NodeBB Emails Using Gmail Service Landing in Spam Folder: > Its been the bain of my life! > Ive said it before, Emails is the biggest issue with nodebb > > If the Admin panel menu could be reworked somehow to make it clearer / work better it would massively help nodebbs adoptance. Because people have given up with nodebb because of it. Email is email is email.. does not really depend on what script you are using. The "gotchas" on my Xenforo install are much the same as they are on my NodeBB or Discourse installs. An knowledge of email configuration for use on a website is a must. It is not the same as setting up a personal email account to send from your desktop or phone. There is a wealth more involved... DMARC, SPF, DKIM just to name a few.

Silly thing - it looks like the problem was that I changed which domain the emailer was sending from (moved to forums., but forgot to set it to that in the email settings, and didn't notice the discrepancy much after because the test email works fine. It's working great now after fixing that. Thanks for the idea to check the login domain! I did not have to switch that out for Fastmail after all.

@baris Yeah noticed it now. Actually, I also setup the nginx configuration following nodebb docs, specially the one for utilising multiple(2) cores for nodebb, but somehow missed the line related to protocol. Thanks a lot again.

@josef this is the part that should triggered the setup. We don't use docker on manage.nodebb.org.

That's interesting. Maybe you can debug here and see what it returns when running normally vs via pm2.

@[email protected] yes, because you are using NodeBB. It will send the activity to as many people as it possibly can, who have any relation to the topic.

@dawei-JOBS can you give us an overview of how you're attempting to develop a theme on your dockerized deployment?

@julian this is the standard header: [image: 1741778382478-329b1a23-2b16-4ff1-8849-02832b830354-image.png] this is the profile: [image: 1741778352271-fd5d8ced-d978-4330-8c74-9e64ef7a8fb3-image.png] We are missing the logo, the top menu, everything from the header.

Yes the checkmark is there. I have access to the PostgreSQL db, but the model is really twisted, I don't know where to find user data. Table list: legacy_hash legacy_list legacy_object legacy_set legacy_string legacy_zset searchchat searchpost searchtopic session