Configuring email backend to invite users sending via webmaster@localhost

[philcoyle123]

Hi,

I have been trying to set up my the site (http://localhost:8080/) so that it can have the email backend configured to invite users.

I have tried setting this in base.py/email_settings.py/production.py/docker file (even tested updating the models.py file) but it seems to keep sending my emails from webhost@localhost which I believe is stopping my emails from being sent. After every update I rebuilt the image and used standard steps of compose down/up. Has anyone had a similar issue and was able to resolve it? I believe the DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL should resolve this issue but it seems like it is overwritten at some point.

This seems related to #7436 and #1929. It seems like users have gotten this working but I can't see the exact steps.

Below is what I imputed into each file:
Config added to base.py/email_settings.py/production.py:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.office365.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'xxx.@hotmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xx!' # i also tested this with env variables
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_USE_SSL = False
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'xxx.@hotmail.com'
SERVER_EMAIL = 'xxx.@hotmail.com'

Config added to docker:
cvat_server:
container_name: cvat_server
image: cvat/server:${CVAT_VERSION:-dev}
restart: always
depends_on:
<<: *backend-deps
cvat_opa:
condition:
service_started
environment:
<<: [*backend-env, clickhouse-env]
DJANGO_MODWSGI_EXTRA_ARGS: ''
ALLOWED_HOSTS: ''
ADAPTIVE_AUTO_ANNOTATION: 'false'
NUMPROCS: 2
CVAT_ANALYTICS: 1
CVAT_BASE_URL:
ONE_RUNNING_JOB_IN_QUEUE_PER_USER:
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: cvat.settings.email_settings # cvat.settings.production or cvat.settings.email_settings
EMAIL_BACKEND: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST: 'smtp.office365.com'
EMAIL_PORT: '587'
EMAIL_HOST_USER: 'xxx.@hotmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD: 'xx!'
EMAIL_USE_TLS: 'True'
EMAIL_USE_SSL: 'False'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL: 'xxx.@hotmail.com'
SERVER_EMAIL: 'xxx.@hotmail.com'

My logs gave out From: webmaster@localhost, similar to the below:

from django.conf import settings

from django.core.mail import send_mail

result = send_mail(
... 'Test Subject',
... 'Test content',
... None, # Use None here to see what Django uses as the sender
... ['xxxx@hotmail.com'],
... fail_silently=False,
... )
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Test Subject
From: webmaster@localhost
To: xxx@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:02:33 -0000
Message-ID: 172245975359.240.6597261055497301986@2315cc34253c

Test content

print(f"Email sent: {result}")

Thanks in advance!

[mbspng]

@philcoyle123 I got this to work, but got stuck at the next issue that arises. Check my post, it explains what I did to get email sending working. But you will probably run into the same issue that comes after that. Post: #8458