How to configure SMTP prior to admin registration

Andrew

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:59:31 +0000

I would like to enable a custom SMTP account when a hub is installed prior to the admin registration to ensure that the admin gets the verification email. I have had too many problems reliably receiving messages sent from the default sendmail configuration. I know that the PHPMailer addon is available, but I need to enable this from the command line before the admin or even the database has been installed. I don't think this is possible. Hacking around the existing installation workflow is a pain and seems like a bad idea for maintenance.

Does anyone know how to configure the default sendmail to use a custom SMTP server with authentication? This can be a system-wide setting because it is in the context of a Docker container.

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Andrew

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 20:05:54 +0000

I see a .htpreconfig.php that might be helpful to disable email verification but leave the rest of the installation flow alone:

    // allow somebody to set some initial settings just in case they can't
    // install without special fiddling

    if(App::$install && file_exists('.htpreconfig.php'))
        @include('.htpreconfig.php');

Andrew

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 21:40:53 +0000

Actually I never noticed this setting that is described in the INSTALL.txt file:

#####################################################################
- If you see an error during database setup that DNS lookup failed
#####################################################################

This is a known issue on some versions of FreeBSD, because 
dns_get_record() fails for some lookups. Create a file in your top webserver 
folder called '.htpreconfig.php' and inside it put the following:

<?php
App::$config['system']['do_not_check_dns'] = 1;

Andrew

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 22:10:52 +0000

That did not seem to do anything. I did discover the utility function that could be useful, but it will require that I manually install the database first (I think).
util/addons install phpmailer

Beni Grind

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 22:14:28 +0000

I'm using ssmtp as a sendmail replacement to send out mail. I'm sure it can be installed in a docker container.

Andrew

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 23:01:06 +0000

ssmtp looks like a way simpler option than the rabbit hole I fell down.

Beni Grind

Sun, 11 Nov 2018 08:45:17 +0000

Hope you manage to climb back up.. ;)