I have run ./discourse-setup to change my smtp settings. I’m not completely clear on which setting will set my “send-from” or “reply-to” address. I have one e-mail address for the smtp login, but I’d like the e-mails to appear to come from (reply-to) a different e-mail address (Basically a no-reply@my-forum.com style address)

You’re looking for DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL in your containers/app.yml.

That seems to kill my discourse. I had to restore the web site as there was no way to get it running after simply changing that one line.

This sounds very esoteric, especially without any details.

Steps to reproduce: Discourse working fine Edit app.yml, changing the one line exactly as suggested Run ./launcher rebuild app (always takes a very long time) Rebuild fails and forum is down. Run ./discourse-doctor Fails to fix. Restore web site from backup to state before edit of app.yml and it’s working again. I tried it twice but forgot to export the logs/output before restoring the web site so I’ll leave it for now until I have more time if I feel like trying again.

Sorry. I was careless on my phone. You are probably out of memory. What does free -h tell you? You likely can add more swap (or RAM)

root@DO-Discourse:~# free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 965Mi 705Mi 72Mi 16Mi 187Mi 91Mi Swap: 2.0Gi 17Mi 2.0Gi root@DO-Discourse:~#

You can add more RAM or more swap. You can try something like this to add swap, though I didn’t test it: install -o root -g root -m 0600 /dev/null /swapfile2 fallocate -l 2G /swapfile2 mkswap /swapfile2 swapon /swapfile2 echo "/swapfile2 swap swap auto 0 0" | tee -a /etc/fstab The other option is to make one bigger swap file.

There’s 2gig free, do you really think it needs more? I think I’ll leave it until the next time I get time to try again. Then I’ll copy the logs if it doesn’t succeed. I would think the answer will be in those logs somewhere.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 18, 2024, 9:46am 6

Do you have any non standard plugins?

How much memory do you have?

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