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Customize mail FROM name for APPS like Outline

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    BenjiFranklin
    wrote on last edited by BenjiFranklin
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    Desired Outcome

    Alter the from name for emails sent by Outline to "Company Wiki" instead of "Outline"
    Screenshot 2024-06-22 at 1.14.13 PM.png

    Why

    Make it easier for teammates to know where this is coming from; customize

    How

    Seeing there is a Sendmail add-on which looks like it's a way to override the global email settings on a per-app basis but having trouble getting it to work? ... https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/addons/#sendmail

    I am using Gmail as Cloudron's global email relay across all apps and I also want to use this same account for Outline but I just want to alter the from name .... I have been using something like below where the password is the app password and this all works well when entered into Cloudron's GUI entry system but when I use Sendmail, failure! I guess optimally I'd love to just be able to set "CLOUDRON_MAIL_FROM_DISPLAY_NAME" and just have this one environment var override global setting so I could change this one to "Team Wiki" or something but also fine if i need to define all of them for SENDMAIL to work.

    CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com       # the mail server (relay) that apps can use. this can be an IP or DNS name
    CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_PORT=465         # the mail server port. Currently, this port disables TLS and STARTTLS.
    CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTPS_PORT=587        # SMTPS server port.
    CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_USERNAME=me@gmail.com 
    CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_PASSWORD=aaaa bbbb ccccc dddd 
    CLOUDRON_MAIL_FROM=me@gmail.com               # the "From" address to use
    CLOUDRON_MAIL_FROM_DISPLAY_NAME= MyCompany # the email Display name to use for the "From" address
    CLOUDRON_MAIL_DOMAIN=me@gmail.com            # the domain name to use for email sending (i.e username@domain)
    

    Thank you!

    For this great tool!!

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      girish
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      wrote on last edited by girish
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      @BenjiFranklin this is already supported.

      image.png

      And I get mails like:

      418b0010-4dd7-4b8e-8ffa-7c7cd898548b-image.png

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        BenjiFranklin
        wrote on last edited by BenjiFranklin
        #3

        I am using SMTP with a free gmail like mycompany@gmail.com. When I visit that email setting page all I see is the domain for the server I am hosting on but I would like to keep using Gmail but just change the default from name for Gmail on a per app basis so I can have something like Passwords myorg@gmail.com and Wiki <myorg@gmail.com) ... loving Cloudron the more I get to learn about it!

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          wrote on last edited by
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          Sure, you can keep using gmail in outline. The mail from address is not from gmail.com , it's from the domain that outline was installed.

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          • girishG girish

            Sure, you can keep using gmail in outline. The mail from address is not from gmail.com , it's from the domain that outline was installed.

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            @girish Ahhh ... I think because the settings section didn't populate with Gmail.com after I established this as the outbound, I figured this panel was inactive and overiden by my new outbound settings.

            I now see that this panel will still set the from name and reply to address while the sending address will come from outbound.

            It might still be nice if the gmail our newly-established outbound address populated in this panel once established and then users could also use this as a reply-to address? Or even better - an ability to set any chosen reply to address not tied to this server like I might just want to put "myname@maincompany.com" as my reply to instead of the server domain ... I guess a work around is to create a forwarding address but that's additional work.

            Just a thought. Great work, again.

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