kitsune/docs/email.md

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Email from Kitsune

The default settings for Kitsune do not send email. However, outgoing email is printed to the the command line.

Viewing email through Mailcatcher

To view the contents of outgoing email in a slightly easier form than the command line, Mailcatcher can be used. This still won't send the email, but show a web-based "outbox" with the contents of all email which would be sent if Kitsune was hooked up to an email server.

The docker-compose config includes a mailcatcher container, which can be brought up with:

docker-compose up mailcatcher

Kitsune should then be configured to use it:

EMAIL_LOGGING_REAL_BACKEND = django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
EMAIL_HOST = mailcatcher
EMAIL_HOST_USER =
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD =
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False

Now all outgoing email will be captured, and can be viewed through http://localhost:1080/.