Getting emails to send on new Google Cloud bitnami edX installation

[Michael Fackerell]

On my google cloud bitnami installation I added a site using django admin. Then I had to register as a course creator. It says it sent an email to my email but this never arrived. Maybe the smtp server is not set up right? How can I get this working so I can host a domain and create courses with a user?

[m...@edx.org]

As far as I know, the bitnami instance does not ship with an SMTP server. edX uses Amazon SES for our email purposes, so I don't think you'll find edX-made automation for setting up an SMTP server. If you're using google cloud, there might be a django plugin that fits the same API and uses their email service, but you'd have to look. There is also a postfix-queue role in the configuration repo for forwarding to an external SMTP server, but you should read through it and make sure it'll play nicely on your system.

Max Rothman

DevOps Engineer, edX