How do I configure & test email for reminders

[fmcpherson]

I am trying to configure my install of Monica to send me reminders. I have obtained credentials for AWS SES and I believe I have my .env file configured correctly. However, there are a couple of things I am uncertain about. Is there any specific expectation for MAIL_PORT? What are the expected options for MAIL_ENCRYPTION? I have just changed it to yes.

My biggest issue is how to test my configuration. It seems I have to wait 24 hours for a reminder, it doesn't look like a new reminder set for today will immediate fire an email reminder.

I tried inviting a user, which would seem would immediately generate an email, gut when I click Invite a user by email, I get a "Whoops , looks like something went wrong" message, and the URL http://mycontacts.review/settings/users/save is in my address bar.

I don't know of the outbound email settings I have configured are wrong OR I am hitting a bug in monica.

[djaiss]

@fmcpherson the way to test your notifications is to set a reminder with the date of the day, then run php artisan monica:sendnotifications in your terminal.

This will try to send the email using your credentials.

The Amazon SES driver requires a special treatment. You can read more on the official Laravel documentation, but basically you need to install a new package with composer, and update three keys in your config/services.php file.

According to AWS SES documentation, it seems that you can use 25 as the value for MAIL_PORT.

[djaiss]

Also, if you still have problems after having tried the thing above, put APP_DEBUG=true in your .env file and try again in your browser. This will display the logs so we can help debug.

[fmcpherson]

Have to think about this given I am using the Docker containers rather than the straight install.

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 3:03 PM Régis Freyd ***@***.***> wrote: Also, if you still have problems after having tried the thing above, put APP_DEBUG=true in your .env file and try again in your browser. This will display the logs so we can help debug. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#860 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGualUGhvC9E_V6uOTT2nbnIBlqrNjQtks5tO4EDgaJpZM4RvXHQ> .

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[fmcpherson]

I should ask, do you suggest an alternative to SES that is known to work?

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 3:03 PM Régis Freyd ***@***.***> wrote: Also, if you still have problems after having tried the thing above, put APP_DEBUG=true in your .env file and try again in your browser. This will display the logs so we can help debug. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#860 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGualUGhvC9E_V6uOTT2nbnIBlqrNjQtks5tO4EDgaJpZM4RvXHQ> .

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[fmcpherson]

I've got it working using SES as an SMTP endpoint. I am going to write up a How-To for this, if you create a How-To folder under docs, I will contribute upon completion.

[djaiss]

@fmcpherson great!

I use https://postmarkapp.com/ on .com personally. Locally I'm using the default SMTP server in Homestead.

If you could write up an How to about this, that would be awesome. Feel free to add a paragraph at the bottom of https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/master/docs/installation/generic.md.

[TomGranot]

@fmcpherson Did you end up writing something down? I wrote one that unfortunately doesn't work now. I'd be happy to move over to SES and would appreciate some pointers.

[akhiljalagam]

@fmcpherson the way to test your notifications is to set a reminder with the date of the day, then run php artisan monica:sendnotifications in your terminal.

This will try to send the email using your credentials.

The Amazon SES driver requires a special treatment. You can read more on the official Laravel documentation, but basically you need to install a new package with composer, and update three keys in your config/services.php file.

According to AWS SES documentation, it seems that you can use 25 as the value for MAIL_PORT.

its php artisan send:notifications

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