SMTP

In order for your applications to be able to send out emails, you need an SMTP server. A nice free one is Mailgun.

Create an account, and follow their steps to register your domain.

Once that is completed, you can plug the settings they provide into your settings/vault.yml file. To do this:

1. run the make decrypt command
2. find and edit the vault.yml file > NOTE: editing this file will require superuser/ root permissions
3. Set the following settings to what you have been provided

# SMTP Settings
smtp:
  host:
  port:
  user:
  pass:
  from_email:
  from_name:

4. Save, and run make deploy again; to re-encrypt the vault.yml file

Mail Server

To have the mailu stack use this SMTP server to send rather than trying to send mail out directly itself, locate the settings/config.yml file and set:

mailu:
  forward_to_smtp: False

to ...

mailu:
  forward_to_smtp: True

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Last update: July 23, 2021