Today's #Friendica tip! 

You can go to your settings, navigate to the "Display" settings, and activate the "Stay local" checkbox.

This makes it so that when you click on people's profiles from other places, you don't automatically visit their home site, but instead it displays their profiles directly on MyWebFriends! This is the behavior you might know from #Mastodon and makes sure you stay on #MyWebFriends so you can easily follow them or browse their posts.

The disadvantage you should be aware of is that you might lose out on some information from their profiles that the site they call home offers; for example, profile decoration that Friendica doesn't have, you might miss out on some not-yet-synchronized replies or posts, special formatting, smileys and other server-specific info.

#feditips #fedi

What is MyWebFriends?! Introduction to a new social network.

https://mywebfriends.online/display/40e27c8f-2967-45eb-8574-d72085559658

Hey there. 

I am trying to set up the PHPMailer addon so that my instance can send password reset and registration e-mails to users.

As I don't have the capacity or skill to set up my own e-mail server with DKIM and DMARC and whatever it requires not to be incompatible with most of the professional e-mail services out there, I am trying to just use external SMTP authentication.

Right now, there is a filled-out phpmailer.config.php file in my /config directory, but no e-mails are being sent. According to the admin panel's logs, the PHPMailer addon throws an "SMTP authentication failed" error, but with no further information.

Is there any place to look into the detailed e-mail logs to see what exactly the issue is? It's probably some kind of mismatched port or security standard, or maybe some cert issue. Who knows.