From 1388d60f426cc251cdda8908795735c2475d07c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Mann Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 08:14:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- Running-Mastodon/Heroku-guide.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Running-Mastodon/Heroku-guide.md b/Running-Mastodon/Heroku-guide.md index 1ba77aa2..783b57ca 100644 --- a/Running-Mastodon/Heroku-guide.md +++ b/Running-Mastodon/Heroku-guide.md @@ -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