Setting up mailer

Setup the following environment variables:

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL=[e-mail]
EMAIL_HOST=localhost
EMAIL_PORT=1025
EMAIL_HOST_USER=purple
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=dummy-unsafe-example
EMAIL_USE_TLS=True

Note: Docker Compose Environment Variables

When using Docker Compose, avoid spaces around the = sign in environment variable definitions. Spaces cause variables to be silently ignored.

Correct: MY_VARIABLE=value Incorrect: MY_VARIABLE = value

Add automatically your local CA-certificate

An issue you may encounter when setting up your mailer is that your local CA certificates might not be included inside your Docker container. This could cause problems when sending emails.

To address this, we need to apply some modifications to the compose file in the backend and huey services:

• This volumes (replace /your/ca-certificate/path/example_CA.crt by the pass and the name of your ca-certificate) :

- /your/ca-certificate/path/example_CA.crt:/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/root_CA.crt:ro

• This entrypoint :

entrypoint:
  - /bin/sh
  - -c
  - |
    update-ca-certificates
    poetry run bash ./startup.sh

There's already an entrypoint for huey, you can modify it like this:

entrypoint:  
  - /bin/sh
  - -c
  - |
    update-ca-certificates
    poetry run python manage.py run_huey -w 2 --scheduler-interval 60