Gerrit not able to send emails using Sendgrid as SMTP server

[Thiru Edla]

Dear Team,

We are using Sendgrid as SMTP server to send emails from Gerrit. Recently Sendgrid made 2FA mandatory for authentication. Previously we were using Sendgrid username and password to authenticate from Gerrit. After the mandatory 2FA, sendgrid suggests to use username as "apikey" and password as a token.

After updating our gerrit.config file with username and token we are getting the below error

com.google.gerrit.exceptions.EmailException: Mail Error: SMTP server rejected auth: 220 SG ESMTP service ready at ismtpd0162p1iad2.sendgrid.net

Below is the sendemail configuration we are using

[sendemail]

    enable = true

    smtpServer = smtp.sendgrid.net

    smtpEncryption = ssl

    smtpUser = apikey

    smtpPass = <sendgrid token>

    smtpServerPort = 465

    from = GerritCodeReview <coder...@test.com>

By the way when we used below curl command from the same machine where our gerrit server is hosted and we received the emails.

curl -i --request POST \

--url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \

--header 'Authorization: Bearer <sendgrid token>' \

--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \

--data '{"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": "te...@gmail.com"}]}],"from": {"email": "GerritCodeReview <coder...@test.com>"},"subject": "Hello, World!","content": [{"type": "text/plain", "value": "Howdy!"}]}'

For the record the same token is being used in other tools(viz., Jenkins etc) of our organisation and things are working with the username and token.

[Andrew Allen]

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 12:47 AM Thiru Edla <te...@gainsight.com> wrote:

Dear Team,

We are using Sendgrid as SMTP server to send emails from Gerrit. Recently Sendgrid made 2FA mandatory for authentication. Previously we were using Sendgrid username and password to authenticate from Gerrit. After the mandatory 2FA, sendgrid suggests to use username as "apikey" and password as a token.

After updating our gerrit.config file with username and token we are getting the below error

com.google.gerrit.exceptions.EmailException: Mail Error: SMTP server rejected auth: 220 SG ESMTP service ready at ismtpd0162p1iad2.sendgrid.net

Below is the sendemail configuration we are using

[sendemail]

    enable = true

    smtpServer = smtp.sendgrid.net

    smtpEncryption = ssl

    smtpUser = apikey

    smtpPass = <sendgrid token>

    smtpServerPort = 465

    from = GerritCodeReview <coder...@test.com>

Here is the sendgrid configuration I've been using for a while:

[sendemail]

smtpServer = smtp.sendgrid.net

smtpServerPort = 587

smtpEncryption = TLS

smtpUser = apikey 

from = USER 

Then I have smtpPass in the secure config file.

 

By the way when we used below curl command from the same machine where our gerrit server is hosted and we received the emails.

curl -i --request POST \

--url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \

--header 'Authorization: Bearer <sendgrid token>' \

--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \

--data '{"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": "te...@gmail.com"}]}],"from": {"email": "GerritCodeReview <coder...@test.com>"},"subject": "Hello, World!","content": [{"type": "text/plain", "value": "Howdy!"}]}'

For the record the same token is being used in other tools(viz., Jenkins etc) of our organisation and things are working with the username and token.

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[Thiru Edla]

Thanks Andrew the solution worked.