Hi James

I haven't tried this but... had a nagging feeling there might need to be some depth to the json structure, as in the old money, things like the pickupDirectoryLocation were attributes of the specifiedpickupdirectory element... so 'i think' in json config it might be more like this?

{
  "mailSettings": {
    "smtp": {
      "deliveryMethod": "SpecifiedPickupDirectory",
      "specifiedPickupDirectory": { 
         "pickupDirectoryLocation": "C:\\folder" 
      }
    }
  }
}

regards

Marc

This how my SMTP configuration for SpecifiedPickupDirectory

    "Smtp": {
      "From": "[email protected]",
      "DeliveryMethod": "SpecifiedPickupDirectory",
      "PickupDirectoryLocation": "C:\temp",
      "Username": "",
      "Password": "",
      "Host": "127.0.0.1"
    }

Thanks for the tips, Im still getting nowhere with these updated settings.

It seems like it is still trying to connect using network settings:

Exception

System.Net.Internals.SocketExceptionFactory+ExtendedSocketException (10061): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. 127.0.0.1:25
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndConnect(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at MailKit.Net.SocketUtils.ConnectAsync(String host, Int32 port, IPEndPoint localEndPoint, Boolean doAsync, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at MailKit.Net.SocketUtils.ConnectAsync(String host, Int32 port, IPEndPoint localEndPoint, Int32 timeout, Boolean doAsync, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at MailKit.MailService.ConnectSocket(String host, Int32 port, Boolean doAsync, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at MailKit.Net.Smtp.SmtpClient.ConnectAsync(String host, Int32 port, SecureSocketOptions options, Boolean doAsync, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Umbraco.Cms.Infrastructure.Mail.EmailSender.SendAsyncInternal(EmailMessage message, String emailType, Boolean enableNotification)
   at Umbraco.Cms.Infrastructure.Mail.EmailSender.SendAsync(EmailMessage message, String emailType)

Is this expected when using pickup directory?

To help even more I need some more details. Where have you located the SMTP configuration at appsettings.json

So is the Smtp config at the root of the root of the json or neasted in some other object?

My Appsettings is like this:

{
  "$schema": "./umbraco/config/appsettings-schema.json",
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "umbracoDbDSN": "database"
  },
  "Serilog": {
    "MinimumLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Override": {
        "Microsoft": "Warning",
        "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information",
        "System": "Warning"
      }
    }
  },
  "Umbraco": {
    "CMS": {
      "Content": {
        "Notifications": {
          "Email": "[email protected]"
        },
        "MacroErrors": "Throw"
      },
      "Global": {
        "DefaultUILanguage": "en-us",
        "HideTopLevelNodeFromPath": true,
        "UmbracoPath": "~/umbraco",
        "TimeOutInMinutes": 20,
        "UseHttps": false,
        "Id": "81e5682b-3a48-494d-8e37-e8dc6a7bfa4b",
        "Smtp": {
          "From": "[email protected]",
          "DeliveryMethod": "SpecifiedPickupDirectory",
          "PickupDirectoryLocation": "C:\temp",
          "Username": "",
          "Password": "",
          "Host": "127.0.0.1"
        }
      },
      "Hosting": {
        "Debug": false
      },
      "KeepAlive": {
        "DisableKeepAliveTask": false,
        "KeepAlivePingUrl": "{umbracoApplicationUrl}/api/keepalive/ping"
      },
      "RequestHandler": {
        "ConvertUrlsToAscii": "try"
      },
      "RuntimeMinification": {
        "dataFolder": "umbraco/Data/TEMP/Smidge",
        "version": "637694912170665642"
      },
      "Security": {
        "KeepUserLoggedIn": false,
        "UsernameIsEmail": true,
        "AllowPasswordReset": true,
        "HideDisabledUsersInBackoffice": false,
        "AllowedUserNameCharacters": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-._@+\\",
        "UserPassword": {
          "RequiredLength": 10,
          "RequireNonLetterOrDigit": false,
          "RequireDigit": false,
          "RequireLowercase": false,
          "RequireUppercase": false,
          "MaxFailedAccessAttemptsBeforeLockout": 5
        },
        "MemberPassword": {
          "RequiredLength": 10,
          "RequireNonLetterOrDigit": false,
          "RequireDigit": false,
          "RequireLowercase": false,
          "RequireUppercase": false,
          "MaxFailedAccessAttemptsBeforeLockout": 5
        }
      },
      "Tours": {
        "EnableTours": true
      },
      "ModelsBuilder": {
        "ModelsMode": "InMemoryAuto",
        "Enable": true
      }
    }
  }
}

And a look down i the Source of Umrabco the first thing the do in SendAsyncInternal is chech if the PickupDirectoryLocation isnullorwhitespace

So my best guess is the SMTP config is place at wrong place.

The default settings in the appsetting is a SMTP config is not provied is Nework

Hello James,

No the IIS Expree should not make any differ. Hmm only think I can see is if PickupDirectoryLocationis is not configued or Umbraco not can finde the PickupDirectoryLocation path on the local machine, it will fallback to host.

Do you have the path C:\dev\test created on your machine? Else to it out, and make the folders.

hi everyone, this is a bug. pls up vote https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/pull/11548 and hopefully it can get pulled into 9.1.2 or 9.2

thanks

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