Mail Action using wrong port

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Hi,
I configured the mail action like this:

# The SMTP server hostname, e.g. "smtp.gmail.com"
hostname=mailserver.eu

# the SMTP port to use (optional, defaults to 25 (resp. 587 for TLS/SSL))
port=587

# the username and password if the SMTP server requires authentication
username=myopenhab
password=mypassword

# The email address to use for sending mails
from=openhab@mailserver.eu

# set to "true", if STARTTLS is enabled (not required) for the connection
# (optional, defaults to false)
tls=true

# set to "true", if SSL negotiation should occur on connection
# do not use both tls=true and ssl=true
# (optional, defaults to false)
#ssl=true

# set to "true", if POP before SMTP (another authentication mechanism)
# should be enabled. Username and Password are taken from the above
# configuration (optional, default to false)
popbeforesmtp=false

# Character set used to encode message body
# (optional, if not provided platform default is used)
#charset=

But it doesn’t work and what I see in the log output is the following:

10:11:24.950 [ERROR] [org.openhab.action.mail.internal.Mail] - Could not send e-mail to 'user@domain.eu'.
org.apache.commons.mail.EmailException: Sending the email to the following server failed : mailserver.eu:465

What I am confused about is that the port is 465 and I configured 587. The mail.cfg definitely has the port 587 configured. I already restarted the whole server to be sure that the config was reloaded but it is still the same.
Somebody has an idea what the issue is?

2

Check the content of userdata/config/org/openhab/*.config if the changes you made to the *.cfg have made it into it.
If not delete the *.config and restart openHAB.

Also see:

This is also valid for any other cfg file.

3

Hm, I don’t really understand what to do. I have no path userdata/config/org/openhab/ on my server.

4

Check the docs for file locations:

5

OK,
so it is at the path /var/lib/openhab2/config/org/openhab/mail.config
I removed it and restarted the server.
Now it connects to the correct port.
Thanks for you help!

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