MAIL_URL and Administration -> EMail -> SMTP are both required for a working instance

[pierreozoux]

Rocket.Chat Version: latest

There are 2 ways to configure email in Rocket.chat:

• MAIL_URL
• Administration -> EMail -> SMTP

From my experience, they are both required and behave differently.
MAIL_URL is required to send "forgot password email" for instance, I believe, this is the standard meteor way.
Administration -> EMail -> SMTP is required to send verification email, this is I beliweve, something created by rocket, and not meteor standard..

This is related to #5192 and #3602

Would it be possible to make Administration -> EMail -> SMTP read from MAIL_URL?
And make MAIL_URL read from Administration -> EMail -> SMTP if not present?

This way, we would have a consistent way of configuring emails in Rocket.Chat.

[reetp]

+1

[sampaiodiego]

We actually create the env var MAIL_URL from Administration -> EMail -> SMTP values at runtime. So they are the same thing.

But yes, we could read from MAIL_URL to fill Administration -> EMail -> SMTP values.

[pierreozoux]

@sampaiodiego thanks for your answer.

Actually the doc is pretty clear about it. As I know about MAIL_URL, it is strange for me as a meteor user.

I created this PR: RocketChat/docs-old#260 to simplify the doc, and remove reference to MAIL_URL as it is not really needed then.