[bitnami/moodle] sendmail: not found

[curiousgeorgios]

Name and Version

bitnami/moodle:latest

What architecture are you using?

amd64

What steps will reproduce the bug?

have set up SMTP in .env file as:

MOODLE_SMTP_HOST=email-smtp.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com
MOODLE_SMTP_PORT=587
MOODLE_SMTP_USER= (bunch of capital letters as per AWS IAM SMTP user name)
MOODLE_SMTP_PASSWORD=(SMTP password from AWS IAM for amazon SES)
MOODLE_SMTP_PROTOCOL=(have tried both "tls and "STARTTLS")

Looking at the logs I see:

moodle-1 | sh: 1: /usr/sbin/sendmail: not found

I have also tried to install sendmail and ssmtp by connecting into the docker container but I was getting "domain is not verified" issues, even though my domain is verified and can send a test email from Amazon SES

What is the expected behavior?

Email should be sent successfully.

What do you see instead?

moodle-1 | sh: 1: /usr/sbin/sendmail: not found

Additional information

No response

[if0else9]

Get the same problem! Is it possible to solve this?

[curiousgeorgios]

@if0else9 finally got it working by connecting to docker container and installing sendmail + setting up the config:

1. sudo docker exec -it moodle /bin/bash
2. apt install sendmail
3. update ssmtp.conf and then try to send a test e-mail using sendmail - my example below is for Amazon SES

cat > /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf <<EOL
root=<from email address>
mailhub=email-smtp.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com:465
AuthUser=<amazon ses user >
AuthPass=<amazon ses pass>
UseTLS=YES
AuthMethod=LOGIN
FromLineOverride=YES
EOL

[if0else9]

@thedigitalnachos Thank you for your idea. You save nonprofit organisation. :-)

[curiousgeorgios]

@thedigitalnachos Thank you for your idea. You save nonprofit organisation. :-)

hahah no worries, if you need any other help feel free to reach out to me through digitalnachos.com.au - always happy to have a chat :)

[kodpssgovua]

Same with email. Nothing works.

[dgomezleon]

Thank you @thedigitalnachos for sharing your solution.

In order to create an extended image with sendmail, you can add the following line to Dockerfile:

RUN install_packages sendmail

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