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Just migrated from Lemmy to Piefed and I like it so far. Such a clean interface, more things I can configure to my liking, passkeys... :)

I even opened a couple issues over on Codeberg for things that I found.

Heeeelllooo. This is the new instance saying hello. :D

Other instances still reject this one due to some signing stuff, but as I have been told that is apparently temporary.

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[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, I haven't found docs for the email configuration.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Those are in the .env file. For docker it's called .env.docker.

When you pull the repo from git, there's only env.docker.sample and env.sample. Copy env.docker.sample to .env.docker (don't forget the period) [you've likely already done this if using Docker].

The email settings are absent from the docker sample, but you can find them in the env.sample file. Not sure why that is, but I hope that helps!

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 6 days ago

I've set up email and I don't get any emails...

I've added it like this:

MAIL_SERVER='erebion.eu'
MAIL_PORT=465
# Remove the below line if not using TLS - do not set it to False
MAIL_USE_TLS=True
MAIL_USERNAME='piefed@example.com'
MAIL_PASSWORD='not_my_real_password'
MAIL_FROM='piefed@example.com'
ERRORS_TO='noreply@example.com'

Logs don't mention anything regarding email and not sure why.