Local development with new newsletter email functionailty is challenging

[JohnAllenTech]

Context

Local development has gotten a little harder with the introduction of the newsletter functionality due to a number of additional env variables being needed.

This causes the settings tab to not allow you to update a users profile.

Expected Behavior

There should be an way to bypass needing these variables to develop locally

Current Behavior

You need to correct env variables or you need to bypass the functionality in the code

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Steps to reproduce

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Follow the README Try to update your user settings locally after logging in

Additional info

Bypassed this locally by doing the following

and setting my .env to NODE_ENV=development This may not be a good idea when deployed.

https://github.com/codu-code/codu/assets/46611809/3974d15f-79f0-4422-b636-498fc9784454

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