Changing "send-from" e-mail address

Installation
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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)

2

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

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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.

4

This sounds very esoteric, especially without any details.

5

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Discourse working fine
  2. Edit app.yml, changing the one line exactly as suggested
  3. Run ./launcher rebuild app (always takes a very long time)
  4. Rebuild fails and forum is down.
  5. Run ./discourse-doctor
  6. Fails to fix.
  7. 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.

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Do you have any non standard plugins?

How much memory do you have?

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Not quite sure what you mean?

8

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)

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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:~#
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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.

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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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You didn’t include logs, but they probably show that it failed due to lack of memory. When the rebuild fails, you can (usually) start it again with ./launcher start app.

It’s unlikely that adding that ENV would make Discourse not work. If you messed up the formatting (which is unilkely since you got discourse-setup to make the changes), it wouldn’t take a long time.

You have lots of memory free now, but the rebuild takes a lot of memory.

If you’re changing just DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL you can edit it with nano and

./launcher destroy app
./launcher start app