Redmine email notification fix = Solved

Running Redmine 12.0.1 on Proxmox VE 2.1.14, Postfix email notifications did not work for me out of the box.

image = debian-6-turnkey-redmine_12.0.1_i386

SSH'ed to the appliance
cd /var/www/redmine/config/
nano configuration.yml
made changes below and saved

Original:

production:
 email_delivery:
   delivery_method: :smtp
   smtp_settings:
     address: "localhost"
     port: 25

Changed to:

production:
 email_delivery:
   delivery_method: :sendmail
   smtp_settings:
     address: 127.0.0.1
     port: 25

Now working

Reference post at redmine.org http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/6641

Thanks for the great work on these images

Replies (2)

Thanks for reporting

Reply 1 2012-09-15

And bonus points for providing a fix! :)

I've lodged it as a bug here.

Check your firewall (if you

Reply 2 2012-09-19

Check your firewall (if you have one). The TKL firewall shouldn't be an issue (unless you've enabled it, and even then AFAIK it should already have an exception configured OOTB). Also if you are running your server locally (VM or baremetal) sometimes ISPs will block email sending - so contact them and check if that's the case, and if so if there is a workaround (perhaps you can relay through their SMTP).

If using AWS/Hub then I think often Amazon blocks emails. IIRC Chris put something in the docs about that...