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YunoHost-Apps / calibreweb_ynh

Calibre-web package for YunoHost
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Q: mail configuration #75

Open MayeulC opened 3 years ago

MayeulC commented 3 years ago

On the README's todo list, there is the following entry:

  • [ ] Update mail settings with yunohost settings

What would be the correct settings?

For now, I am considering adding a user from the yunohost admin panel, and using it in the SMTP server config. However, is there a better way? I see there is already a calibreweb user in /etc/passwd, can I use that user (by setting its password, and making sure it has a mail address)?

Going forward, wouldn't calling sendmail as that user do the trick? Is a SMTP configuration needed at all? I could make a PR upstream to support that use-case. Although I am not sure how to control which e-mail address would be associated with the user.

Krakinou commented 3 years ago

Hi, In my system, I set following settings: Host : mydomain.tld on which is calibreweb (I have only one domain for my instance) Port : 587 Chiffrement : STARTTLS user : a "real" Yunuhost user from the admin panel, I used the same as the admin password : user password Expediteur : automailer root@mydomain.tld

And emails are successfully sent. I'm not very strong on the email part, so I don't know if better settings are possible...

MayeulC commented 3 years ago

Yeah, that would be my backup solution, but there are a two downsides to that:

  1. You need to store a cleartext password in the calibre config
  2. You need to create a "normal" user, while there is already a dedicated "calibreweb" user, so ideally I'd use that.