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KDE now has its own Lemmy instance
  • Super nice to see KDE in the fediverse :)

    It's an amazing community so far. People are very active and friendly, and the decentralized aspect of it is just amazing. It basically makes sure that what happened to reddit can't happen again.

  • Jerboa after latest update
  • Yeah development speed should slow down in the future. Right now I understand the move away from websockets became really urgent to support all users. And now that's completed.

    Next urgent thing is captcha I guess but that doesn't sound like a massive addition at least.

  • firefox
  • Kagi did it for me. I set it as default search engine when it was new, and I actually forgot about it. Thats how good it is.

    It's the same results as Google, just ranked differently so you don't get all the junk. You will discover lots of new web sites that are quite good.

    Try it!

  • firefox
  • It's not slow, people are slow in their heads. Chrome may feel a bit faster but it's not even what matters when picking a web browser. Will it protect your privacy online? Yes or no.

  • It is truly amazing to witness this confusing era with my own eyes
  • This made me laugh out loud actually. Being born around the year 2000 is like the worst experience. Missing out on the 60s to 80s and being brought up in front of ipads and no chance to ever have the same quality of life as your parents did.

    Review of earth experience: 1/5, would not try again.

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml smartwater0897 @lemmy.ml
    Cant get email to work on my instance

    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?

    EDIT:

    Ok after a lot of experiments and help from people below, this was the solution.

    email: { smtp_server: "smtp.fastmail.com:587" smtp_login: "my_email@fastmail.com" smtp_password: "password" smtp_from_address: "my_email@fastmail.com" tls_type: "starttls" }

    Using this, email sending finally works. I couldnt use something else in the smtp_from_address. Which means my real email gets shown to users, so I will probably create another email address for this purpose completely.

    Also specific to Hetzner instances, they dont block port 487 so you can use that with starttls.

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