As I stated above I am brand new to Xwiki and having a devil of a time getting sending of email to work.
I first setup Xwiki via docker and kept having some error issues so I decided to set it up as an LXC container running on a Proxmox server utilizing a Debian 12 template. Install on the LXC container went just fine. I installed Xwiki Debian 16.5.0. with Maria DB. Logs are kept in /var/log/xwiki/2024_6_30.jetty.log (new log for each day).
First thing I did upon setting it up was to make sure me (the only user at this point) was in the XwikiAdminGroup. Second thing I did was change the theme to “Slate”. Third thing I did was try to setup sending mail utilizing my personal gmail account.
Regarding my Gmail account I do have 2 FA authentication active and have other applications that use “App Passwords”. I setup a new “App Password” for Xwiki.
My initial setup was:
| property | value |
|---|---|
| server | smtp.gmail.com |
| port | 587 |
| username | yourusername@gmail.com |
| password | yourpassword or yourapppassword |
| JavaMail properties | mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true |
I then went to the home page and tried to “Share by email” to myself. It couldn’t connect. I then ssh’d into the LXC container and successfully pinged “smtp.google.com”. I then used the “dig” command successfully. I did both of these just to prove that I had connectivity.
Then on Stack Overflow I found a post with the following:
openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:465
HELO smtp.gmail.com
Then, type “auth login” and you will receive the following: ```
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
Then it instructs you to put your username (email address) and your password (app password) into a base64 encoder and then enter them one at a time on the command line. I did this and received a successful with message saying I was accepted. Proving that you can connect via SSL from the machine.
I tried the same command except substituting port 587 for port 465. This was successful but because there was no "cipher" it immediately closed the port. With SSL being successful from the command line I changed my mail setup to the following:
| property | value |
|---|---|
| server | smtp.gmail.com |
| port | 465 |
| username | yourusername@gmail.com |
| password | yourpassword or yourapppassword |
| JavaMail properties | mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true |
| mail.smtp.auth=true | mail.smtp.ssl=true |
The above didn't work. I then entered my username and app password in their respective fields preencoded in base64 and that didn't work either. The consistent message in the logs is:
> 2024-06-30 17:04:25,275 [qtp2054574951-21 - http://192.168.20.4:8080/xwiki/bin/get/Main/?form_token=DkiI5ha5CmE5OkskjGbiTA&send=1&target=XWiki.crudolphy&target=&includeDocument=link&message=I%20wanted%20to%20share%20this%20page%20with%20you.&xpage=shareinline] ERROR c.x.x.p.m.MailSenderPlugin - sendEmailFromTemplate: XWiki.SharePage vcontext: org.xwiki.velocity.XWikiVelocityContext@3171936a
> com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: smtp.google.com, 465; timeout -1
So now I am at a loss. I can connect from the LXC container command line with the my credentials successfully (using SSL and encoding them base64). I can ping and "dig" smtp.google.com". Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong.
Regards
Chuck Rudolphy