When I deploy Discourse via Helm charts helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami helm install my-release bitnami/discourse things work as intended, but I cannot modify the SMTP e-mail configuration in the Docker container. When I try to replicate this, I shuttle in the container and execute cd /opt/bitnami/discourse/config in this dir I find the discourse.conf file, but I can’t modify it as it says, for instance, that vi is not available. Do you have any suggestions what I could do?

[image] tobi1: Do you have any suggestions what I could do? You can ask on their forum. Except they closed it. Or you can do a standard install and get help here. You might be able to set env variables. You can look at the examples.

Hi @pfaffman , many thanks for your input. I know now how to bring environment variables into the Bitnami helm chart. Given the SMTP credentials of my provider for transactional e-mails Sendinblue [smtp] do you know how the environment variables do look like, that I have to pass to the Dsicourse container?

If you’re trying to use a regular gmail account to send mail, it’s a violation of the TOS and won’t work (for several other reasons).

[image] tobi1: do you know how the environment variables do look like, that I have to pass to the Dsicourse container? There is an example of SMTP env variables in samples/standalone.yml main DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtp.example.com ## uncomment to set the port to something other than the default (25) #DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587 ## USER_NAME / PASSWORD required if the SMTP provider needs authentication ## WARNING: a '#' in the SMTP password can be misinterpreted; ensure it's inside string quotes, e.g.: ## DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: "#pass#ord" DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: user@example.com

Hi @pfaffman @Falco many thanks for your input. This is how my environment variables look like discourse: extraEnvVars: - name: DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS value: "smtp-relay.sendinblue.com" - name: DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT value: "587" - name: DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL value: "no-reply@my-domain.com" - name: DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME value: "my-email@googlemail.com" - name: DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD value: "my-pw" - name: DISCOURSE_SMTP_DOMAIN value: "my-domain.com" and after that the container came up. I tried to send a test e-mail to my gmail account from the admin panel. This is what I got: [smtp_2] So it does not work by now. These are the logs from the Discourse container: Processing by Admin::UsersController#show as JSON Parameters: {"id"=>"1"} Completed 200 OK in 1978ms (Views: 0.6ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 195416) Started GET "/groups/search.json" for 10.0.0.50 at 2022-08-10 11:55:05 +0000 Processing by GroupsController#search as JSON Completed 200 OK in 1189ms (Views: 0.5ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 133325) Started GET "/admin/email.json" for 10.0.0.50 at 2022-08-10 11:55:17 +0000 Processing by Admin::EmailController#index as JSON Completed 200 OK in 23ms (Views: 1.2ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 864) Started POST "/admin/email/test" for 10.0.0.50 at 2022-08-10 11:55:20 +0000 Processing by Admin::EmailController#test as */* Parameters: {"email_address"=>"test@gmail.com"} Completed 422 Unprocessable Entity in 20ms (Views: 1.1ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 2037) Started GET "/about.json" for 10.0.0.47 at 2022-08-10 11:55:46 +0000 Processing by AboutController#index as JSON Completed 200 OK in 67ms (Views: 0.3ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 9503) Started GET "/site/basic-info.json" for 10.0.0.47 at 2022-08-10 11:55:46 +0000 Processing by SiteController#basic_info as JSON Completed 200 OK in 254ms (Views: 0.5ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 33103) Started GET "/site/basic-info.json" for 10.0.0.47 at 2022-08-10 11:55:47 +0000 Processing by SiteController#basic_info as JSON Completed 200 OK in 80ms (Views: 0.8ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 4260) Do you know what I could do differently?

You can enter the running container and execute message = TestMailer.send_test("test@gmail.com") Email::Sender.new(message, :test_message).send and inspect the exception that will be thrown for clues.

This is what get from the first line bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Oh, you need to drop into the rails console first. Go to the Discourse directory and enter rails c.

This is what I get then root@discourse-69c7f5475c-h9qf5:/opt/bitnami/discourse# rails c bash: rails: command not found root@discourse-69c7f5475c-h9qf5:/opt/bitnami/discourse# ls Brewfile Gemfile.lock adminjs config.ru docs lefthook.yml package.json plugins test yarn.lock CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE.txt app d images lib passenger.3000.pid.lock public tmp COPYRIGHT.md README.md bin db install-imagemagick licenses passenger.8080.pid script translator.yml Gemfile Rakefile config discourse.sublime-project jsapp log passenger.8080.pid.lock spec vendor

Okay, I was running now RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails c irb(main):002:0> message = TestMailer.send_test("test@gmail.com") Traceback (most recent call last): 2: from app/mailers/test_mailer.rb:7:in `send_test' 1: from lib/email/build_email_helper.rb:8:in `build_email' ArgumentError (:arguments expected to be an Array of individual string args) Also, this here does not work: root@discourse-69c7f5475c-h9qf5:/opt/bitnami/discourse# RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails c message = TestMailer.send_test("test@gmail.com") bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' Am I doing something wrong here?

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tobi1 August 12, 2022, 5:48pm 13

Hi @Falco many thanks for betting back to me.

What do you mean by unsupported installs? I am happy to go with more supported installs.

Can I still get everything done with a helm chart then?

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