Email reminders and export via mail not arriving - Testmail working

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Hello! I’ve deployed the vikunja v0.24.2 via docker-compose using mariadb (or also sqlite fr testing if it matters) and authentik for external login. Everything is working as expected, except Email reminders and the export of user data via mail.
For the latter, I get the notification, but no mail is send. Testmails send via docker exec vikunja /app/vikunja/vikunja testmail are arriving as expected.
All relevant options should be set:

  • The user settings (“Send me reminders for tasks via email”)
  • Timezone is set correctly on the host/container.

I’ve included my docker-compose.yml at the bottom. One thing I noticed in the logs regarding mail reminders:

2024-08-20T11:36:30.761623633+02:00: INFO	▶ models/RegisterReminderCron 06a Mailer is disabled, not sending reminders per mail

2024-08-20T11:36:30.761964726+02:00: INFO	▶ models/RegisterOverdueReminderCron 06b Mailer is disabled, not sending overdue per mail

I’ve seen this message in other posts, but they were unrelated for Email issues. I am not shure what I should check next. Maybe the external login is an issue? But the database is showing the correct Email-addresses for the users.

docker-compose file:

version: '3'

services:
  vikunja:
    image: vikunja/vikunja
    environment:
      VIKUNJA_SERVICE_PUBLICURL: https://vikunja.example.com
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_HOST: db:3306
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_PASSWORD: <password>
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_TYPE: mysql
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_USER: vikunja
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_DATABASE: vikunja
      VIKUNJA_SERVICE_JWTSECRET: <secret>
      VIKUNJA_SERVICE_TIMEZONE: Europe/Berlin
      VIKUNJA_SERVICE_ENABLEEMAILREMINDERS: true
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_HOST: example.com
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_PORT: 465
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_AUTHTYPE: login
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_USERNAME: mail@example.com
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_PASSWORD: "<password>"
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_SKIPTLSVERIFY: false
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_FROMEMAIL: sender@example.com
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_FORCESSL: true
      VIKUNJA_LOG_LEVEL: INFO
      VIKUNJA_LOG_MAIL: stdout
      VIKUNJA_LOG_MAILLEVEL: DEBUG
    volumes:
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./files:/app/vikunja/files
      - ./config.yml:/app/vikunja/config.yml
      - ./backup:/app/vikunja/backup
    networks:
      - proxy
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
    restart: unless-stopped
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.vikunja.entrypoints=http"
      - "traefik.http.routers.vikunja.rule=Host(`vikunja.example.com`)"
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.vikunja-https-redirect.redirectscheme.scheme=https"
      - "traefik.http.routers.vikunja.middlewares=vikunja-https-redirect"
      - "traefik.http.routers.vikunja-secure.entrypoints=https"
      - "traefik.http.routers.vikunja-secure.rule=Host(`vikunja.example.com`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.vikunja-secure.tls=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.vikunja-secure.service=vikunja"
      - "traefik.http.routers.vikunja.tls.certResolver=letsencrypt"
      - "traefik.http.services.vikunja.loadbalancer.server.port=3456"
      - "traefik.docker.network=proxy"

  db:
    image: mariadb:10
    command: --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: <password> 
      MYSQL_USER: vikunja
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: <password>
      MYSQL_DATABASE: vikunja
    networks:
      - proxy
    volumes:
      - ./db:/var/lib/mysql
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "mysqladmin ping -h localhost -u vikunja --password=<password>"]
      interval: 2s
      start_period: 30s

networks:
  proxy:
    external: true
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Hi,

the error message is actually pretty clear, you forgot to enable the mailer:

services:
  vikunja:
    image: vikunja/vikunja
    environment:
      VIKUNJA_MAILER_ENABLED: true
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Wow, somehow I remembered VIKUNJA_MAILER_ENABLED: is set to true by default. I even checked the documentation again beforehand…I think I mixed it up with VIKUNJA_SERVICE_ENABLEEMAILREMINDERS.

Thank you very much!

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