Can't sign up for Bluemix.
After hitting submit, the sign up page suggests to check my email. I did and then my spam but nothing has arrived.
I had to submit a ticket with support. Their response was a suggestion to clear my browser's cache. It wasn't that effective.
Any hypothesis?
The email Bluemix sent might be blocked by your or your company's mail server, you can raise a ticket asking Bluemix Support to send you confirmation email again. If it is still not working, you may need to check your mail server administrator if it is blocked. And you can double check your sign up information to make the email address is correct.
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We have an on-premise hosted Jira 6.0.8. We have set up an outgoing mail server using a Gmail account and used the send test e-mail feature to successfully send an e-mail out.
Our problem is with e-mail notifications. We are not getting any at all. We have gone through troubleshooting docs https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/troubleshoot-notifications-in-jira-203394737.html here but have not been able to find the solution.
Here is what we have already tried;
Ensured user profile 'My Changes setting' was set to 'Notify Me'
Ensured Notification scheme was correct and associated with the project
Ensured Project Notification email was set to the same as the outgoing mail server Gmail address
Checked the 'Mail Queue' after making a comment on an issue and saw waiting messages in it for the correct issue. These then disappeared from the queue without error within 60 seconds, indicating that they had been sent.
Enabled DEBUG logging under 'Logging and Profiling' for the outgoing mail server and com.atlassian.jira.service and com.atlassian.jira.service.services.DebugService. We reviewed the log file and saw nothing that indicated error but did see the log of the MailqueueService sending the e-mail.
have used the 'Notifcation Helper' tool and it verified that the user would receive the appropriate notification indicating notifcation scheme and permission are set up ok.
Still the notification e-mail is not received.
There was a point made in the troubleshooting link above
Check that your Base URL is set to a domain / IP which your SMTP server will accept. Example: Google apps accounts must have a matching base url to their Google Apps domain.
However, our Adminsistration> System>General Configuration>Base Url for Jira is something like http://myservername:8880 since it is internal self-hosted. This did not cause a problem with the test mail. Could this be an issue for the notification e-mails?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a keycloak (4.4.0-Final) installation.
Scenario:
sendgrid is configured as mail agent (and test mail sending is ok)
I create a new user in keycloak admin console and I pass it the action "verify email"
I get an email with a link to verify my email address, but when I click the link, I get the error "We're sorry...
An error occurred, please login again through your application."
I now have a closer look at the URL and I see 2 times = => http://keycloakurl/.....login-actions/action-token?key=eyJhbGciOiJIUzUx...&client_id=client-...
When I change = to = , the url works.
Does someone know if this is a bug in sendgrid, or a bug in the keycloak templates?
I know you have moved ahead with Mailjet but I would like to share my solution here as it may help others. I noticed this issue only happens if Email Tracking is enabled at SendGrid side. Try after disabling all tracking configurations under Setting -> Tracking screen.
The issue was not keycloak, but sendgrid (ref: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-8536). We fixed the issue by dropping sendgrid and going to mailjet.
I am using SendGrid as the email provider in my application. When I place a link in the email it gets re-encoded to a link on the SendGrid servers. Can I trust this link with my password resets? I know that I am already trusting SendGrid with my links by sending through their servers but what is the purpose of rewriting the urls. To use the link you need to also know the email address and it is only valid for 20 minutes.
The link in my email looks like
http://myserver/resetpassword/oLsjShCLh7tFpyl8cEzbghHpS59iazhD
and it gets encoded in the email as
https://u5478763.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=hvVg2ntCa8InWO5OtVSRJPdvIiofcS3RGII270TrJ9aOSJX2MZ9RkcgQLgnRLLNMjjo5mMQVejYxIGVPoz-2BfxtM55lXWiXwtNWvE42LzFPE-3D_Q0Y0L54uOhrrHtFzGFlMm55yZkDAUn39DjKFOTu4BtReZW14K4ruKT7IkXyh4pWHctN-2FYlmmFj2J7a6-2BHy0UN0PZDTzqKnADTi10YJeXfirMSGqGLkjKxZZY1iGRjCkgddBCiyIBiLfBs3VS4GmrB5SPa7uCb9KYcZdqm5AvebY6pyGitqdcpmDSVV6zHjR1oK3NZQboFfjng-2Fqv6PQHekU7irw1BWOtP5ja3RxfUKE-3D
This is because you have Click Tracking enabled in your account. Log into your SendGrid dashboard, and from the navbar on the left side click on Settings -> Tracking and disable Click Tracking.
I am having some hard time getting my PHP script to send emails with a SMTP Gmail account. I am using PHP and Symfony2 SwiftMailer, but it seems that the problem lies with my Gmail account configuration. In my logs, I end up with the following error message:
"ERROR - Exception occurred while flushing email queue: Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username "new.user.name#gmail.com" using 1 possible authenticators"
Luckily, I had another Gmail account working with another application, seemlessly. Rescuing these parameters (user and password) on my new box, eveything works just fine.
in parameters.yml I have (working fine):
parameters:
mailer_transport: gmail
mailer_host: ~
mailer_user: old.user.account#gmail.com
mailer_password: old-password
And here is the version giving auth error message:
parameters:
mailer_transport: gmail
mailer_host: ~
mailer_user: new.user.account#gmail.com
mailer_password: new-password
Needless to say I have checked, rechecked and checked yet again user and password.
I reviewed my Gmail account settings under "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" in my new account: I could find nothing about SMTP.
Searches made me aware some captcha policy may interfere with SMTP accounts. I read here that I should try to enter a captcha phrase, which I do here, and get the nice message:"Account access enabled", "Please try signing in to your Google account again from your new device or application."
Trying again. No luck.
All this is happening from my local dev environment (both OK mails, and NOT OK mails).
How I could get to use SMTP with a newly created Gmail Account ? Any idea ?
Actually, double-checking my inbox, I saw I received a mail from Google explaining someone was trying to enter my account. There, I found a link to the configuration parameter I was looking for:
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
==> I just had to check: "Make my account less secure.", and was able to get mails sent.
In the mean time, I have found that Gmail SMTP service is getting pretty unrelyable and introduces captcha every now and again (here). I seems there is not much you can do about it. On the other hand, I read stronger passwords seem to help in some cases (here).
I must also say that with a newly created account, I was not able to get this working. Even unchecking the "make my account overly secure" option. It really looks like Gmail is phasing out its SMTP service.
UPDATE
I wanted to mention that there are some excellent and free (or very, very cheap for high volumes) alternatives for sending emails. For example, you could check Mandrill, SendGrid or Amazon SES, among others.
Using the link https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps gave me the message: this setting is disabled by your administrator.
I had to go to admin.google.com and login with the same account details and look for the same setting there. Full url was https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#ServiceSettings/notab=1&service=securitysetting&subtab=lesssecureappsaccess
Then the first link worked, so also there I enabled less secure apps. Now I was able to use Gmails SMTP.
Maybe this helps someone: I had the same encounter with gmail, but in my case, when I logged into the gmail account that I configured in my code as SMTP mail sender user, I was greeted by a warning message saying that somebody tried to use my user and pass and that attempt was blocked (hence my error message). It asked me to confirm if that was me or not, so after I clicked the 'That was me' button and tried my code again all worked fine.
Making my account less secure helped me https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps
At the moment, we are sending an email address verification email each time someone signs up. This email has been causing a number of problems: people don't get it, they just don't click the link in the email or the email gets block by spam or some other method. We are working on resolving the spam issue, although I don't think it's possible to completely resolve it.
I'm wondering what other methods there might be for verifying and email address. Is there any other way to verify an email address without sending an email? Or is there another method of ensuring people aren't signing up with fake information?
I'm not sure if there are other good methods, but sending an email and having them click a link is definitely the simplest and most accurate.
A main feature to sending that email, is for the person to verify that it's actually them that requested it.
The only way to verify someone owns an email address is to have him use it.
As for verifying users don't enter fake information - not even sending an email can help. With so many disposable/temporary email services out there (like GuerrillaMail) , someone can fill up your form with false info, post a temp email address, log to that address and click the link in your email - manually or programatically.
You have to trust your users to come back for your content, and ignore spammers.
strikeiron.com offers a paid web service to verify if an email exists without sending a message to that email. try it out here is the link: strick
http://www.strikeiron.com/Catalog/ProductDetail.aspx?pv=5.0.0&pn=Email+Verification