[CLOSED] Forget Password and No SMTP Setup

How to recovery password if I forget it and didn't setup the SMTP in self-hosting

Trigger the forgot password and then check the docker logs for the appwrite-worker-mails container for the url. You might have to set the SMTP host env var to some non empty string

SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

This looks like the output of docker compose exec appwrite doctor

What you need to do is

Step 1

Make sure you're in the appwrite directory where the docker-compose.yml stays by doing

$ cd appwrite

Step 2

Edit the .env file in the appwrite directory.

$ nano .env

Step 3

Change the value of _APP_SMTP_HOST to any truthy value

_APP_SMTP_HOST=abc

Step 4

Restart appwrite containers to use the new environment variables by doing

$ docker compose up -d

P.S. Make sure you're in the appwrite directory

Step 5

Trigger the Forgot Password from the login screen, and then check the logs for the container by doing

docker logs appwrite-worker-mails

You should then see the email that was generated, which will include the link to reset the password. Copy it, and reset your password.

I can see the reset link in log

And able to reset now

But it won’t send email out

I followed the video of mailgun created by community

This is a separate story. Since your issue has been resolved, you should create another post.

[CLOSED] Forget Password and No SMTP Setup