Multisite installation with seperated smtp emails

installation
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I followed this post to setup doctor multisites.

but how to configure different smtp email settings for different sites?

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I tried this as well and couldn’t get the second site to use different settings from the first site.

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Perhaps @sam could offer an opinion, if this is a known bug or something else.

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We don’t support multiple outgoing SMTP servers in multisite

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Thanks for the answer. Is this something you would consider given a pull request? Does it make sense to invest time in?

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Sure, if you can pull it off, its pretty complicated, but I would be open to have a PR for it and would kind of prefer if email settings were in site settings as long as they can be shadowed by globals.

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Hi @sam,

Might there be potential for some funding if I were to implement this feature? We’re currently looking into getting an MVP grant from our government (https://www.nsw.gov.au/grants-and-funding/mvp-ventures-program) and any funding you provide we would be able to get the government to $1 for $1 match it, which would be amazing :slight_smile:.

Cheers,
Simon

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Can you specify in detail all the changes being proposed?

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Hi @sam,

I actually just realised, that if I choose to not set the following environment variable:

DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL

Within the app.yml, then the following configuration item appears within settings:

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And I can use that to have exactly the effect I desired.

Thanks @sam for having been open to the potential of this :slight_smile:, but looks like won’t be needing a PR this time round.

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Maximum / best:

  • possibility to override all SMTP configuration variables per site in multisite configuration
    • DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS
    • DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT
    • DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME
    • DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD
    • DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS
    • DISCOURSE_SMTP_DOMAIN

Minimum:

  • Possibility to override the following SMTP related variables per site
    • DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME
    • DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD

in their config/multisite.yml equivalents

Background for minimum: given no other choices I can set things up to live with one SMTP server but surely need separate SMTP users (senders). Sending mail from address in a different domain than the discourse site runs on looks unfortunately like a deal breaker

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