After upgrading `kratos to 0 9` sending emails doesn t work

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After upgrading `kratos to 0 9` sending emails doesn t work on local mail server `mailhog` or `mailslurper` in docker Is anyone having similar problem it worked in `0 8` for me logs say that it sent the mail but i don t receive anything docker compose ` ` `mailhog ` `image mailhog mailhog latest` `ports ` ` 8025 8025 ` ` 1025 1025 ` `networks ` ` intranet` ` ` `mailslurper ` `image oryd mailslurper smtps latest` `ports ` ` 4436 4436 ` ` 4437 4437 ` ` 1025 1025 ` `networks ` ` intranet` ` ` i tried many things for `connection uri` `` `` `` ``

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

I have exactly the same problem here tried with both mailhog amp mailslurper and fumbled with connection uri just like < ripe alarm 21163> cry

high-optician-2097 · Answer

What errors do you get

high-optician-2097 · Answer

```<smtps test test localhost 1025 skip ssl verify=true>``` this we use in the e2e tests together with ```docker run name mailslurper p 4436 4436 p 4437 4437 p 1025 1025 oryd mailslurper latest smtps```

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

I have no errors at all kratos says `Sending out verification email with verification link` but the courier just doesn t pick it up thinking face

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

There are new entries in courier messages table though but all of them have status 1

high-optician-2097 · Answer

Is the courier running

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

I ve tried adding a courier to docker compose as kratos courier watch and now I m getting errors ```kratos courier 1 | time=2022 03 29T09 48 32Z level=info msg=Courier worker started audience=application service name=Ory Kratos service version=v0 9 0 alpha 3 kratos courier 1 | time=2022 03 29T09 48 32Z level=error msg=Unable to send email using SMTP connection audience=application error=map message dial tcp 127 0 0 1 1025 connect connection refused stack trace kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | go pkg mod github com ory mail v3 v3 0 0 smtp go 92 kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | go pkg mod github com ory mail v3 v3 0 0 smtp go 211 kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | project courier smtp go 173 kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | project courier courier dispatcher go 13 kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | project courier courier dispatcher go 65 kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | project courier courier go 85 kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | go pkg mod github com cenkalti backoff v2 2 1+incompatible retry go 37 kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | go pkg mod github com cenkalti backoff v2 2 1+incompatible retry go 24 kratos courier 1 | kratos courier 1 | project courier courier go 84 kratos courier 1 | runtime goexit kratos courier 1 | usr local go src runtime asm amd64 s 1581 message from=no reply test io service name=Ory Kratos service version=v0 9 0 alpha 3 smtp server=localhost 1025 smtp ssl enabled=false```

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

< high optician 2097> yes courier was running together with main kratos service before but it wasn t picking up emails It started throwing errors when I ran the courier separately

high-optician-2097 · Answer

looks like the port is not open

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Here s what I ve tried not both of them at the same time of course

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Anyway when I don t run courier as a singleton but via `watch courier true` it says it s sending out an email but mailhog mailslurper doesn t react at all lt

high-optician-2097 · Answer

It s really hard to say anything without the full context or a full reproducible example In the kratos repository the e2e test pass fine they do test whether emails arrive or not We have tests in both the go code for email sending as well as full e2e So it has to be some other issue but it s very difficult to say from screenshot excerpts Can you reproduce this issue with the ory kratos quickstart as well If so there might be an issue If not it s probably local

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Ok I ll try thank you

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Hmm quickstart is having some db issues eyes I ve been following this guide ```kratos 1 | time=2022 03 29T12 19 47Z level=debug msg=Connecting to SQL Database func= file= project driver registry default go 537 audience=application connMaxLifetime=0s idlePool=8 pool=16 service name=Ory Kratos service version=v0 9 0 alpha 3 kratos 1 | time=2022 03 29T12 19 48Z level=warning msg=Unable to determine network retrying func= file= go pkg mod github com ory x v0 0 358 logrusx helper go 118 audience=application error=map debug message Unable to locate the table reason stack trace kratos 1 | kratos 1 | go pkg mod github com ory x v0 0 358 sqlcon error sqlite go 26 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | go pkg mod github com ory x v0 0 358 sqlcon error go 89 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | go pkg mod github com ory x v0 0 358 networkx manager go 42 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | project persistence sql persister go 80 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | project driver registry default go 582 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | go pkg mod github com cenkalti backoff v2 2 1+incompatible retry go 37 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | go pkg mod github com cenkalti backoff v2 2 1+incompatible retry go 24 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | project driver registry default go 523 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | project driver factory go 15 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | project cmd serve root go 33 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | go pkg mod github com spf13 cobra v1 3 0 command go 860 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | go pkg mod github com spf13 cobra v1 3 0 command go 974 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | go pkg mod github com spf13 cobra v1 3 0 command go 902 kratos 1 | kratos 1 | project cmd root go 48 kratos 1 | main main kratos 1 | project main go 35 kratos 1 | runtime main kratos 1 | usr local go src runtime proc go 255 kratos 1 | runtime goexit kratos 1 | usr local go src runtime asm amd64 s 1581 status Internal Server Error status code 500 service name=Ory Kratos service version=v0 9 0 alpha 3```

high-optician-2097 · Answer

That s ok it means the migrations did not run yet

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Just above it it says ```kratos migrate 1 | Successfully applied SQL migrations kratos kratos migrate 1 exited with code 0``` The UI works but when I click on login signup recover verify buttons I get The connection was reset lt

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Oh my bad my system doesn t have var lib sqlite smile I ve updated the docker compose sqlite volume paths and now it works

high-optician-2097 · Answer

Oh I see slightly smiling face Ok cool that it works

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

And the email has indeed arrived

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Oh I think I ve found out what the problem was There was `watch courier true` in my YAML config but apparently it stopped working because when I ve added ` watch courier` flag to my `kratos serve` command in docker compose it started sending out emails

high-optician-2097 · Answer

Oh yes that is a regression < ripe alarm 21163> this might be your problem too

high-optician-2097 · Answer

Is `watch courier` in the config file in the official resources somewhere

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Yeah it s still in the configuration reference <https www ory sh docs kratos reference configuration>

high-optician-2097 · Answer

Oh I see but it does say gt This is a CLI flag and environment variable and can not be set using the config file smile

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

lol sweat smile Wouldn t it make sense to remove it altogether though And maybe add some note to changelog because I believe a lot of people still rely on this config value at least in dev environments see no evil

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Oh I think I get it now It has to be there in order for the environment variable to work right

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Anyway I think it s worth mentioning in the changelog as people can easily overlook this comment in config reference just as me and < ripe alarm 21163> did grin

high-optician-2097 · Answer

yeah the problewm is that this is autogenerated and it s not properly being removed from the document there sweat smile

high-optician-2097 · Answer

so it should have never worked as a config value in the first place

ripe-alarm-21163 · Answer

< high optician 2097> yes exactly i also had watch courier true in my kratos yaml file

adorable-air-10005 · Answer

I just ran into this issue with the upgrade from v0 8 0 alpha 3 to v0 9 0 alpha 3 I have the watch courier set in cli and config but still can t get emails Also tried the various connection string options Still no emails in mailslurper and no errors

faint-energy-48611 · Answer

Try running courier as a standalone service `kratos courier watch` this might help

ripe-alarm-21163 · Answer

this is what i have in my docker compose and it works fine with the watch courier flag `kratos ` `command serve watch courier config etc config kratos kratos yaml dev `

adorable-air-10005 · Answer

Running courier didn t seem to have any effect I saw that message when it ran with the same command as above

adorable-air-10005 · Answer

Start command ```kratos serve c $CONFIG PATH dev watch courier```

adorable-air-10005 · Answer

I added this to the config file and still no change ```watch courier true```

adorable-air-10005 · Answer

latest try with the smtp setting for testing ```<smtp test test localhost 1025 skip starttls=true amp skip ssl verify=true>```

ripe-alarm-21163 · Answer

watch courier true has no effect in kratos yml conf only CLI flag works not sure what s going on in your case

thankful-secretary-66849 · Answer

I actually got the same error for AWS SES I use smtps port 587 with no params ``` audience application error message tls first record does not look like a TLS handshake level error message from msg Unable to send email using SMTP connection service name Ory Kratos service version v0 9 0 alpha 3 smtp server smtp ssl enabled true time 2022 04 06T23 19 18 04 00 ```

thankful-secretary-66849 · Answer

And running this command works for me ```nc vz 587 Connection to port 587 tcp submission succeeded ```