Verify email fails on self-hosted instance

[droidus]

In my self-hosted instance, I click on the Send Email to verify my email address, but I just get this error message:

[Peter_H]

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[droidus]

I’ve configured postfix to use my mail provider. Sendmail is able to send the email, but when I click the button in the bitwarden gui, it still fails with the same error message. No messages in mail.err or mail.log.

[cksapp (Kent)]

@droidus

I’ve configured postfix to use my mail provider. Sendmail is able to send the email, but when I click the button in the bitwarden gui, it still fails with the same error message.

If you are using a local mail server with postfix you may wish to look at some resources here from other users doing the same.

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If at all possible I highly recommend trying to use an SMTP relay rather than hosting your own mail server, but hopefully these links help.