I needed to re-setup SMTP and run the ./launcher start app command. However I was not prompted to re-enter the installation data - email, SMTP etc… The command run, and then exit to the command line after the re-installation. Thoughts?

[image] John: ./launcher start app This just starts the container, it doesn’t prompt you for anything. The config is in /var/containers/app.yml However, I think you are confusing this command with ./discourse-setup? (which does prompt)

Thank you Robert. So to re-enter the SMTP info should I use ./discourse-setup?

If you’re updating environment variables like SMTP credentials then you can’t just restart the container for them to be picked up. You’re going to need to do a ./launcher destroy app before ./launcher start app for the container to start using the new values.

[image] John: So to re-enter the SMTP info should I use ./discourse-setup? If you don’t know what nano is and would prefer to be prompted for the changes, then that’s what you want to do.

Thank you all for your help! I managed to edit the info. Now I am waiting to see if I get the message I just posted. Crossing fingers. :pray:

[image] ideatank: ./discourse-setup Stephen, since I have managed to edit the info when running ./discourse-setup do I have to deal with the commands ./launcher destroy app / ./launcher start app now??

If setup ran a rebuild then no. The above is in the event you want to avoid waiting for your instance to rebuild.

Following up: I see my post initiated a mail sending BUT I also see all messages are queued but not sent " 250 Ok: queued as" I am using Sendgrid. Thoughts?

I’m pretty sure that “sent” and “queued” are synonyms. Are they in your sendgrid logs? If you use the email test can you send to mail-tester.com?

./launcher start app - does not run (need to re-setup SMTP)

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 29, 2022, 10:35am 6

If you don’t know what nano is and would prefer to be prompted for the changes, then that’s what you want to do.

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