Not able to send password recovery mails to the users

[himanshuZee]

Users not receiving emails even though i get a success response for self-service/recovery?flow={flowId}
I have tested with following courier configurations using sendgrid :

1. connection_uri: smtps://apikey:**********@smtp.sendgrid.net:25/?skip_ssl_verify=false
2. connection_uri: smtp://apikey:**********@smtp.sendgrid.net:25/
3. connection_uri: smtp://apikey:**********@smtp.sendgrid.net:25/?disable_starttls=true
4. connection_uri: smtps://apikey:**********@smtp.sendgrid.net:25/
5. connection_uri: smtps://apikey:**********@smtp.sendgrid.net:25/?skip_ssl_verify=true

I'm trying to test the functionality on localhost first before deploying to our dev and staging environments.
here is the log exactly when it says sending out email
{
level=info msg=Sending out recovery email with recovery link. audience=audit email_address=himanshu9821@gmail.com identity_id=7e8dc0fc-c4f2-455b-ad0c-321894a50b8e recovery_link_id=eeeeacee-e69f-4799-a2f2-7f7aa8239943 recovery_link_token=rSEzmlrW2kJ6TQ1HY12XOvXyUoyzepi8 service_name=Ory Kratos service_version=master via=email
}

Please help with the right config for courier.

[aeneasr]

Have you checked https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/emails-sms/sending-emails-smtp#send-emails-using-your-smtp-server ?

[mlb5000]

I've having the same issue (described below). Do you have any insight?

[mlb5000]

I'm having the exact same issue. Kratos logs report no errors in sending the email. Giving it a deliberately wrong username, password, or SMTP host it doesn't raise any errors either. But if you omit connection_uri from the courier configuration section, the service will not start (as expected). So it's reading the configuration value at startup, but doesn't appear to ever actually try sending the emails.

For me this is on Kratos v0.13.0.

[vinckr]

Hello @mlb5000
Can you try upgrading to the latest version? We don't really support the older versions, so maybe its related to a bug or was something else that got fixed in 1.0

[mlb5000]

@vinckr same issue in 1.0.0. No emails are sent. I've tried the same SMTP credential variations as the original poster, have tried giving it a bad SMTP hostname, bad username, bad password. None of them raise any errors, but it claims every single time Sending out recovery email with recovery code.

kratos-9dc587654-74l4n kratos time=2023-10-19T13:24:53Z level=debug msg=Preparing recovery code. address=matt@******.com audience=application service_name=Ory Kratos service_version=v1.0.0 via=email
kratos-9dc587654-74l4n kratos time=2023-10-19T13:24:53Z level=info msg=Sending out recovery email with recovery code. audience=audit email_address=matt@******.com identity_id=887fee45-4cd5-******-******-****** recovery_code=****** recovery_code_id=b7e07e60-764b-******-******-****** service_name=Ory Kratos service_version=v1.0.0 via=email

[jonas-jonas]

Yes, could be. But the log messaged indicated that it was sending the same message twice, which would obviously also be odd.

No, do share here. It's the same code path, so there shouldn't be any differences.

[mlb5000]

@jonas-jonas Well, this one might actually be an internal issue

kratos-5d476f4c65-htb5q kratos time=2023-10-19T13:51:25Z level=debug msg=Preparing verification code. address=matt@******.com audience=application service_name=Ory Kratos service_version=v1.0.0 via=email
kratos-5d476f4c65-htb5q kratos time=2023-10-19T13:51:25Z level=info msg=Address verification was requested for an unknown address. audience=audit email_address=<nil> service_name=Ory Kratos service_version=v1.0.0 strategy=code via=email was_notified=false

Notice how the second log message says email_address=<nil>, despite the first one having it correct? That seems odd. I verified that the identity and email are set on my account, and that they match, but it still claims that it's an "unknown address".

[jonas-jonas]

Well, that's actually just a bug in the log message. Nice find!

Does the email address you're trying to verify belong to a registered account?

[mlb5000]

@jonas-jonas yes, it does. I verified that both the identity and email fields on my account match the email I'm entering there, but it still claims it doesn't exist.

[jonas-jonas]

Could you post your identity schema?

[joshdoesthis]

I was having trouble with this as well until I read the following: https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/cli/kratos-courier-watch
E.g. serve -c /etc/config/kratos/kratos.yml --watch-courier