I’m running Monicahq on Pikapods. v. 4.1.2. I’ve entered my email address in the settings>General. After this email address it says “This is the email used to login, and this is where Monica will send your reminders.” However, I’m getting no notifications.
I’ve tried looking in the monicahq manual. The documentation doesn’t appear to correspond to my version. I can’t find this in my instance: https://docs.monicahq.com/user-and-account-settings/notification-channels#anatomy-of-the-notification-channel-list
The documentation says it’s possible to send test notification:
https://docs.monicahq.com/user-and-account-settings/notification-channels#send-tests-and-logs
I can’t find a page where I can send a test notification on my instance.
How can I fix notifications? Any help gratefully received.
Email notification and the like usually don’t work out of the box and require SMTP configuration. This is usually available in the app admin consoles or configurable through Environment variables in the console.
I’m not running it ( and I haven’t checked it for Monica HQ ), but those would be the first things I’d look for.
The .env.example file shows SMTP settings. The example file notifies to a logfile rather than an email.
https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/.env.example
# Mailing # Set the MAIL_MAILER to 'smtp' if you want to send emails. MAIL_MAILER=log MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io MAIL_PORT=2525 MAIL_USERNAME=null MAIL_PASSWORD=null MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=hello@example.com MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}" MAIL_REPLY_TO_ADDRESS=hello@example.com MAIL_REPLY_TO_NAME="${APP_NAME}"