Podman + Email configuration

Gramps Web
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My Gramps Version

Gramps 5.2.4
Gramps Web API 2.8.2
Gramps Web Frontend 25.2.0
Gramps QL 0.3.0
Sifts 1.0.0
locale: en
multi-tree: false
task queue: true
OCR: true
chat: false

I am using podman instead of docker

Could you please check if my configuration is alright?

  • I set up Email with STS following the documentation. But email is not getting delivered or attempted.
  • Are these correct? Should the values be “quote” and does it matter?
  • Celery is not giving any errors - but no email delivery is attempted.
  • Is there way to configure it using UI like First time Wizard provided the option to configure
services:
  grampsweb: &grampsweb
    container_name: grampsweb
    image: ghcr.io/gramps-project/grampsweb:latest
    restart: always
    environment: &grampsweb-env
      GRAMPSWEB_TREE: "Sourashtra Family Tree"
      VIRTUAL_PORT: "5000"
      VIRTUAL_HOST: family.thinnal.org
      GRAMPSWEB_CELERY_CONFIG__broker_url: "redis://grampsweb_redis:6379/0"
      GRAMPSWEB_CELERY_CONFIG__result_backend: "redis://grampsweb_redis:6379/0"
      GRAMPSWEB_RATELIMIT_STORAGE_URI: redis://grampsweb_redis:6379/1
      GRAMPSWEB_EMAIL_HOST: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
      GRAMPSWEB_EMAIL_PORT: 465
      GRAMPSWEB_EMAIL_USER: XXXXXX
      GRAMPSWEB_EMAIL_PASSWORD: XXXXX
      GRAMPSWEB_EMAIL_USE_TLS: True
      GRAMPSWEB_DEFAULT_EMAIL: "family@thinnal.org"
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
    volumes:
      - gramps_users:/app/users
      - gramps_index:/app/indexdir
      - gramps_thumb_cache:/app/thumbnail_cache
      - gramps_cache:/app/cache
      - gramps_secret:/app/secret
      - gramps_db:/root/.gramps/grampsdb
      - gramps_media:/app/media
      - gramps_tmp:/tmp
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Hi @orsenthil
Curious which documentation are you following to set up your config? Taking a look at server configuration, GRAMPSWEB_DEFAULT_EMAIL doesn’t seem to be valid. Should it be GRAMPSWEB_DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL?

And btw, I don’t have quotes around my email and it works.

Can’t remember if that’s possible, but if you search this forum you’ll find ways to manipulate the configuration parameters using SQL commands.

3

I think, I made typo of this and I didn’t use DEFAULT.

4

I tried to install Gramps Web using Podman instead of Docker, mainly because Docker imposes a risk in requiring a process to run as root.
I did a number of configurations, but all failed, so eventually much against my wishes I switched to Docker.

I hope you find a way to run Gramps Web using Podman, and if you do, please let us all know.

5

There are command line tools to send dummy emails, you can use them to debug your config and try different options.

docker compose run grampsweb python3 -m gramps_webapi email --help

See also Modify e-mail configuration (after first run) · Issue #165 · gramps-project/gramps-web · GitHub