Updated Mailgun instructions (#76)

This is not quite step-by-step yet, but at least indicates that you need to do more than just adding the Mailgun add on.
This commit is contained in:
Boris Mann 2017-04-17 08:14:55 -07:00 committed by wxcafé
parent 18b243df0d
commit 1388d60f42
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions

View File

@ -41,8 +41,9 @@ You should set the Heroku config vars of `LOCAL_DOMAIN` to your hostname, and
## Email
Consider using [Mailgun](https://mailgun.com) or similar, who offer free plans
that should suit your interests. Look in `production.rb` to see which config
variables need to be set on Heroku for outgoing email to work.
that should suit your interests. Look in `.env.production.sample` to see which SMTP variables you need to set.
Note: just adding the Mailgun add-on is not enough. You will need to verify Mailgun, at which point you can use the sandbox domain _IF_ you verify individual email addresses to send to, but if you want this to work with arbitrary email addresses, you will need to add and verify your own domain, which will require DNS changes. Adding your own domain also generates a new postmaster adddress and password, so complete this before editing config variables for best results.
## File storage