oCIS email setup and config

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Hello Friends,

I recently set up a test oCIS installation using docker on an ubuntu vm.

I tried to setup outgoing emails using the following docker compose file:

version: "3.9"

networks:
  owncloud-net:
    external: false

services:
  owncloud:
    container_name: owncloud
    image: owncloud/ocis:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    entrypoint:
      - /bin/sh
    # run ocis init to initialize a configuration file with random secrets
    # it will fail on subsequent runs, because the config file already exists
    # therefore we ignore the error and then start the ocis server
    command: ["-c", "ocis init || true; ocis server"]
    networks:
      - owncloud-net
    ports:
      - "9200:9200"
    environment:
        - NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_HOST=stmp.host
        - NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_PORT=587
        - NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION=login
        - NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_SENDER=sender-email
        - NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_USERNAME=username
        - NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_PASSWORD=pass
        - NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_ENCRYPTION=ssl
        - DEMO_USERS=false
        - PROXY_TLS=false
        - OCIS_INSECURE=false  # reverse proxy terminates ssl
        - OCIS_URL=https://owncloud.example.com 
        - PROXY_HTTP_ADDR=0.0.0.0:9200 
        - OCIS_LOG_LEVEL=info
        - OCIS_LOG_COLOR=true
        - OCIS_LOG_PRETTY=true
        - ADMIN_PASSWORD=pass
        volumes:
          - ./ocis-config:/etc/ocis
          -./ocis-data:/var/lib/ocis

After initializing the server i see no indication of errors in the docker logs.
When searching for the notification configuration the only thing i can find is
in ./ocis-config/ocis.yaml

...
notifications:
  notifications:
    events:
      tls_insecure: false

I am not sure where i am going wrong and i can’t find a way to test sending an email out (I am assuming it isn’t implemented yet in the webgui).

Should I edit the yaml file manually to achieve this ?
Should there be a separate yaml file for this configuration?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

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Did you sort out the issue?

3

No, unfortunately i had to pause migrating to oCIS due to time constraints.

4

Ok, can you reopen it when you run into issues again?

5

I am migrating from OC 10 classic to OCIS (at least partly). I am using these settings in the env file:

NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_HOST=mail1.netzwissen.de
NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_PORT=587
NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION=login
NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_SENDER=noreply@netzwissen.de
NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_USERNAME=noreply@netzwissen.de
NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_PASSWORD=xxxxxx
NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_ENCRYPTION=starttls
NOTIFICATIONS_EMAIL_TEMPLATE_PATH=/etc/ocis/templates/text/email.text.tmpl
NOTIFICATIONS_EMAIL_TEMPLATE_PATH=/etc/ocis/templates/html/email.html.tmpl
NOTIFICATIONS_EMAIL_TEMPLATE_PATH=/etc/ocis//templates/html/img/

I see notifications in the web GUI and the sync client, but is there any way to test the mail notfication setup somehow? I want to force the notification service to send something …

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The notification service will handle share created, share expired, and space shared\unshared\membership expired events. Make sure that Receive notification mails is turned on in an account setting for a recipient.

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You need to use the env. like below and just create manually the folders and files (/etc/ocis/templates/text/email.text.tmpl etc):

NOTIFICATIONS_EMAIL_TEMPLATE_PATH=/etc/ocis

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The topic is already older, but maybe someone will benefit from the solution.
I’ve had the same problem, that is my email was configured but emails would not be sent.
The error that I had and you also seem to have here is that

NOTIFICATIONS_SMTP_SENDER

needs to have the format:

oCIS <ocis@example.com>

rather than just an email, otherwise it just doesn’t work.
It would be nicer if oCIS returned an error rather then doing nothing.

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