500 Internal server error for trying to invite people to the pod.

[Blaine]

I have gone to my ropes end (i know very little about the email section of diaspora or however it works) and each time i try to send an invitation email- i get a 500 server error. Any ideas?

[Blaine]

I checked the error log and this is what i got:
Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2)):
  lib/email_inviter.rb:28:in `mail'
  lib/email_inviter.rb:22:in `send!'
  lib/email_inviter.rb:22:in `each'
  lib/email_inviter.rb:22:in `send!'
  app/controllers/invitations_controller.rb:50:in `create'
  lib/rack/chrome_frame.rb:39:in `call'


To me this looks like it is something with postfix, any suggestions on where to look

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Blaine <bur...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have gone to my ropes end (i know very little about the email section of diaspora or however it works) and each time i try to send an invitation email- i get a 500 server error. Any ideas?

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[Vereniging ORXNet]

Install ssmtp and configure smtp server in the confs?

[Blaine]

SMTP is installed and configured, though its defaults. Does diaspora require anything different than defaults? I also added the information to application.yml, though i don't know if i set it up right. The pastebin of my application.yml is http://pastebin.com/JCqRfTH4 thanks

[Vereniging ORXNet]

Must have something to do with the auth you use with the smtp server. Have you tried it with an open smtp server? F.e. with the smtp of your provider?

[sanjM]

You need to check your application.yml file in the config folder and the 
settings below: 

###################################################### 
  # Email Configuration 
  ###################################################### 

  ## First you need to enable it ;) 
  mailer_on: true 

  ## Sender address used in mail send by Diaspora 
  sender_address: 'webm...@example.com' 

  ## This selects which mailer should be used. Take 'smtp' for a smtp 
  ## connection, 'sendmail' to use the sendmail binary or 
  ## 'messagebus' to use the messagebus service. 
  mailer_method: 'smtp' 

  # Address/port to smtp server handling outgoing mail. 
  smtp_address: 'mail.example.com or whatever your mail domain is' 
  smtp_port: '587' 

  #API key if you are using message bus 
  message_bus_api_key: '' 

  # The path to the sendmail binary. Ignored if mailer_method is not set to 
sendmail 
  sendmail_location: '/usr/sbin/sendmail' 

  # Set this to true if you want to use exim and sendmail 
  sendmail_exim_fix: false 

  # Authentication required to send mail. Use one of 'plain', 
  # 'login' or 'cram_md5'. Use 'none' if server does not support 
  # authentication 
  smtp_authentication: 'plain' 

  # Automatically enable TLS? Ignored if smtp_authentication is set to none 
  smtp_starttls_auto: true 

  # OpenSSL verify mode used when connecting to a SMTP server with TLS. 
  # Set this to none if you have a self signed certificate, keep it empty 
(not '') for the default 
  # Possible values: none, peer, client_once, fail_if_no_peer_cert 
  smtp_openssl_verify_mode: none 

  # Domain of smtp server. 
  # This should match the common name of the certificate 
  # the SMTP server sends. If he sends one 
  smtp_domain: 'mail.example.com or just example.com depending on your 
setup' 

  # Credentials to log in to the SMTP server - may be necessary if 
  # smtp_authentication is not 'none' 
  smtp_username: 'XXXXX' 
  smtp_password: 'PASSWORD HERE' 

  # Sender address in Diaspora's outgoing mail. 
  smtp_sender_address: 'webm...@example.com' 

Once I got those setup correctly, invites got sent out correctly - even the 
failed ones and no more 500 Internel Error.