I’m working on Discourse Doctor. As part of that, I’m adding a rake task to lib/tasks/emails.rake to test connectivity to the mail server. The way that @j.jaffeux did it in a stand-alone ruby script was def check_env_var(var) if ENV[var].nil? || ENV[var].empty? error("#{var} is blank, edit containers/app.yml variables") end end check_env_var("DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS") check_env_var("DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT") check_env_var("DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME") check_env_var("DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD") Net::SMTP.start(ENV["DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS"], ENV["DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT"]) .auth_login(ENV["DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME"], ENV["DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD"]) That’s working, but is there a more Railsy/straightforward way to get those SMTP values from Rails rather than ENV? I’m also not sure that the rake task needs to mention app.yml, as I think that now discourse-setup does a pretty good job of checking that up front, so I think that I can just remove the check_env_var part.

Nice to see this getting some :heart_with_arrow:, the doctor :woman_health_worker: is in!

[image] pfaffman: That’s working, but is there a more Railsy/straightforward way to get those SMTP values from Rails rather than ENV? Is this the right place? Discourse::Application.config.action_mailer.smtp_settings

[image] brahn: Is this the right place? Looks like it! It’s obvious when you know. :slight_smile: Many thanks!

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 26, 2018, 8:59pm 4

Looks like it! It’s obvious when you know.

Many thanks!

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