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Sending E-mails

Environment Variables

MAIL_URL: The server reads from the MAIL_URL environment variable to determine how to send mail. The MAIL_URL should reference an SMTP server and use the form:

or

The smtps:// form (the s is for “secure”) should be used if the mail server requires TLS/SSL (and does not use STARTTLS) and is most common on port 465. Connections which start unencrypted prior to being upgraded to TLS/SSL (using STARTTLS) typically use port 587 (and sometimes 25) and should use smtp://. For more information see the Nodemailer docs

Docker Setup

The MAIL_URL can be passed to Docker with the -e parameter:

It can also be added in a similar way with docker-compose: