Testing email settings

Much of NEMO's functionality relies on sending emails, so it is important to ensure it interfaces correctly with your organization's email server. The Django documentation contains a reference of all email related settings that can be configured for NEMO. All the relevant settings begin with EMAIL_. The most important ones to configure are, EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_PORT, EMAIL_USE_TLS, and EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE.

We highly recommend using TLS when sending email. This prevents unauthorized parties from intercepting, reading, or modifying emails.

When you're ready to test your settings, you can use django-admin to send a test email. Configure your settings.py first. Then, invoke django-admin from the command line:

django-admin sendtestemail [email protected]

If you get an error, or do not receive the test email, you can ask questions on the NEMO email list. If you encounter a problem that you think is particularly common, please help us by improving the documentation on this wiki.

Allowed hosts

In a production deployment of NEMO, the site should be served from a domain name such as nemo.example.org. ALLOWED_HOSTS controls where NEMO site content can come from.

TO DO: discuss email, LDAP servers, allowed hosts, database (with dbshell), external certs

TODO: add instructions for

• systemd configuration (automatic startup on boot, and more)
• ensure the firewall is open on TCP port 443