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Change Email Backend

To change the email backend, you can set the following variable in your docker-compose.advanced.yml under the server service:

Using Console (default)

environment:
  - EMAIL_BACKEND=console

With SMTP

environment:
  - EMAIL_BACKEND=email
  - EMAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
  - EMAIL_USE_TLS=True
  - EMAIL_PORT=587
  - EMAIL_USE_SSL=False
  - EMAIL_HOST_USER=user
  - EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=password
  - DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL=user@example.com

Customizing Emails

By default, the email will display [example.com] in the subject. You can customize this in the admin site.

  1. Go to the admin site (serverurl/admin)
  2. Click on Sites
  3. Click on first site, it will probably be example.com
  4. Change the Domain name and Display name to your desired values
  5. Click Save