Sending Emails without setting MAIL_URL

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Sending Emails without setting MAIL_URL #157

Open yogiben opened 10 years ago

yogiben commented 10 years ago

I'm deploying to EC2. When I deploy wordpress, the emails work straight away.

When deploying meteor, the emails don't send because there is no MAIL_URL set. Is it possible to use the innate email capabilities of a server?

chmac commented 9 years ago

Servers don't automatically have the ability to send email. They need to have some kind of mail server running. It's possible to configure a mail server and add it to the docker image, but probably doesn't make sense. It's easier to use a service like Mandrill and then configure a MAIL_URL in the mup.json file.

Sidenote, I had huge headaches with mandrill because my ISP blocks port 587. Solution was to use 2525 instead.