Which emailer to use?
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@Spideynn off topic, but on topic of you just having set up a nodebb instance. Which email service did you use (for nodebb to send out emails?)
As this is, and has been, my biggest challenge with nodebb; Im wondering how all the new joiners to Nodebb are getting on with that aspect, and which mail client they are using?! -
@eeeee said in Is a Xenforo-like Resource Manager possible?:
> but on topic of you just having set up a nodebb instance. Which email service did you use (for nodebb to send out emails?)
> As this is, and has been, my biggest challenge with nodebb; Im wondering how all the new joiners to Nodebb are getting on with that aspect, and which mail client they are using?!Not them, but I have been using ZoHo free level. They allow you to send via SMTP on the free plan but you cannot use POP3/IMAP to check email unless you are on a paid tier, so you have to log into their web based interface to check mail. But for what I needed it for, which is only sending out emails it works out great.
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@eeeee didn't we fix that here?
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@phenomlab unfortunately it never got fully fixed with Zoho... for an odd reason.
Zoho told me that someone (presumably years ago) had used the domain Im using now with Zoho!
And until their zoho email account is removed from their logs I couldnt associate a new one.
This seemed strange, particularly as I looked on wayback machine and I could not see any record of my current website being registered before!
I did attempt to go through the process they required to prove ownership of the website to get that 'old email' dis-associated but the email chain on that went dead.Fastmail did work, so we can say it was fixed for that, but its only free for 30days.
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@eeeee NodeBB can technically send mail straight out of the box, although that's obviously not going to be really good deliverability-wise because your IP is unknown (or worse) and you're not sending any authentication-style headers, both of which are baseline assumptions that need to be met otherwise your emails just end up in the spam bin.
We use the SendGrid plugin here, with its generous free tier. NodeBB doesn't send too many emails, so that should be ok to get started.
