Email server

GDPR Explorer can send notification in some cases as email message.

To be able to do that, it needs to know detail how to connect to email SMTP server.

Configuration file with detail of email server is located at 

/var/dockershare/apimodules/platform-settings/email-sender.properties

In this file you can define following options regarding email server:

  • Host name
  • Port
  • Whether to use secure connection, in case it is set to true, it will use StartTLS
  • Whether authentication is requried
    • If it is, also username and password has to be filled in

Plus there is also property to configure name of the sender.

After changing the configuration file, container needs to be restarted, otherwise new configuration is not taken into account