Email

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OpenTAKServer uses Flask-Mailman is used to handle emails. Enabling email support also enables the following features:

• User account self registration
• Password reset - Without email, only administrators can change a user's password if they forget it
• Two-factor authentication via email

Enabling Email Support

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The following settings are required to enable email support. You can find them in your config.yml file.

• OTS_ENABLE_EMAIL: Other settings have no effect is this is set to false
• MAIL_SERVER
• MAIL_PORT
• MAIL_USERNAME
• MAIL_PASSWORD

These settings are optional and will depend on the email service you use.

• MAIL_USE_SSL
• MAIL_USE_TLS

You can find a full list of Flask-Mailman's settings in their documentation.

Gmail

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If you plan to use a Gmail account to send emails, you will need to log into your account and enable an app password. Your regular password will not work in OpenTAKServer. See Google's documentation for details.

Gmail settings

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Setting	Value
MAIL_SERVER	smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT	587
MAIL_USE_SSL	false
MAIL_USE_TLS	true
MAIL_USERNAME	your_username@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD	your_app_password