Correct Discourse SMTP Settings Needed

Help with Setup/Upgrade
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I created example1 .xyz for Mail-in-a-box in vps1 with MIAB DNS and I created www.example2 .com for Discourse in vps2 with cloudflare DNS and CDN.

Created Email IDs:
support@example1 .xyz
help@example2 .com
noreply@example2 .com and alias it to help@example2 .com

DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: box.example1.xyz
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: support@example1.xyz
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: “passsword”
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true # (optional, default true)
DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: “plain”
DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: none

Problem is that i am not getting discourse activation email. Got email test msg: “Sender address rejected: not owned by user”, may be smtp 553 error. All my 3 email IDs are working perfectly. I found out that Discourse is sending email to noreply@example2 .com, so i created noreply email ID and forwarded it to my help@example2 .com

But none of it works. Please help

Thanks in advance

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Please post related /var/log/syslog entries from the MiaB instance.

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What are the available options for each of these settings?

What is the sender email? noreply@example2.com? If so that has to be an alias of support@example1.xyz. Whichever email is ‘sending the messages’ needs to be an alias of the account you authenticate with here:

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@alento Thanks man. Your Alias option really helped me. I solved it. Millions of thanks

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