Configure email notifications

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This article is intended for Flow Production Tracking System Administrator and explains how to configure email notifications for Flow Production Tracking Enterprise Docker.

SMTP Server

Make sure that your SMTP server can be reached from each host running Flow Production Tracking App containers. The following article will help you determine if the SMTP server is reachable:

https://www.port25.com/how-to-check-an-smtp-connection-with-a-manual-telnet-session-2/

You will probably want to create a SMTP user specific to your Flow Production Tracking instance.

Configure Flow Production Tracking

Next, configure Flow Production Tracking so it can communicate with your SMTP server. To do so:

  1. In the Flow Production Tracking Web App, go to Site Preferences -> Email Notification
  2. Fill in the information do-configuration-email.png
    Important:

    If you are using Microsoft O365 email services, be sure to put the same value for the fields "User name" and "Email address".

Start the emailnotifier container

Uncomment the  lines corresponding to emailnotifier in the docker-compose.yml in services section. An example docker-compose.yml is available here.

Start the container.

 sudo docker-compose up -d

Test

Test email notifications by creating a new user:

  1. Go to People -> + Person.
  2. Create a new test user, with your email as the email.
  3. Make sure Send Welcome Email is checked.
  4. You should receive an email and be able to log in using the test user.
  5. Delete the test user.
Parent page: Configuration