Functional development setup without SMTP?

[decentral1se]

Related to #821, would it be possible to configure a test email server for development mode? Something like https://mailcatcher.me. In this way, emails would be logged to the terminal and not cause the following error. It can't send any email but I haven't configured it yet. This makes testing and working with a timeoverflow setup that has no SMTP configuration not really workable. You can't create any new users without dropping into the command-line?

app-1 | I, [2025-12-04T09:11:51.775525 #37] INFO -- : [8affe27f-896b-444f-bdd4-a235e1b6d855] Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 239ms (ActiveRecord: 7.1ms (3 queries, 0 cached) | GC: 0.4ms)
app-1 | E, [2025-12-04T09:11:51.783420 #37] ERROR -- : [8affe27f-896b-444f-bdd4-a235e1b6d855]
app-1 | [8affe27f-896b-444f-bdd4-a235e1b6d855] ActionView::Template::Error (Missing host to link to! Please provide the :host parameter, set default_url_options[:host], or set :only_path to true):
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app-1 | [8affe27f-896b-444f-bdd4-a235e1b6d855] ArgumentError (Missing host to link to! Please provide the :host parameter, set default_url_options[:host], or set :only_path to true)
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<%= t('.instruction') %>

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<%= link_to t('.action'), edit_password_url(@resource, reset_password_token: @token) %>

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<%= t('.instruction_2') %>

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<%= t('.instruction_3') %>

[sseerrggii]

Hi @decentral1se thanks for your suggestions, I agree to have that on development enviroment, could you open PR? @markets what do you think?

[rewritten]

Hey @decentral1se, a conversation with @markets has made me think. Is this actually for a local development environment? In that case you have the code and can set up any local mail dump. You can for example (not an endorsement) install https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog and set up local SMTP to just point to port 1025.

The development environment has defaults for the urls, so it looks like you are running a production environment? In that case PR #831 should do.

[decentral1se]

Yes, it was more for local development but I now have gotten further and have a "production" deployment. But good, it is certainly possible to configure a local mail catcher. I guess it would be nice to add this to https://github.com/coopdevs/timeoverflow/blob/develop/docker-compose.yml to close this off for whoever gets there first. This is certainly not an urgent issue for me.