How to customize the email templates on self hosted instance?

As title, how can I change the templates? I have set the .env SMTP and email variables. However, if I try to go to templates in the dashboard it prompts me to enable the custom smtp server which I already have in the environment variables in docker? To clarify this is not cloud hosted. Is this possible?

yes, set the custom smtp settings

Along with them already being set inside the .env file?

I tried to set the custom smtp settings on their own without changing anything inside the .env file but this didn’t work.

After changing the .env file with all variables from the guide it works but now I’m unsure how to go about the templates.

Currently the setup is:

SMTP variables set with correct values inside .env file in self hosted instance

No custom smtp settings set in dashboard

now set the custom smtp settings

Will do! The same as in the .env file?

you can if you want

think of the one in your .env file as the settings for your appwrite instance (ie. doing recover password for your console user) or a fallback for your projects. then the project one is project specific smtp settings

Thank you for the explanation! So it’s intended that the project smtp to not work without the instance smtp config ?

Sort of yes. You can submit a feature request suggesting otherwise though