​Failed to send invite email about affine

[ecker00]

I was able to complete this just using the GraphQL API, but it requires quite a bit of tinkering to do. Looking forward to the email documentation is completed. In short if anybody else needs it:

https://localhost:3010/graphql

Go to settings and enable:

  "request.credentials": "include"

This makes cookies work in the playground so you can login and do operations.

Sign up with a second account:

mutation {
     signUp(email: "[email protected]", name: "Second", password: "123") {
         id
     }
}

Sign into the first account and create an invite

mutation {
  signIn(email: "[email protected]", password:"123") {
    id
    name
  }
}

Find your workspace ID, in the browser make sure it's cloud synced then copy the id in the url http://localhost/workspace/<id>/

Then create an invite, this will return an ID, take note of it

mutation {
  invite(
    email: "[email protected]"
    permission: Admin
    sendInviteMail: false
    workspaceId: "xxx-xxx-xx-xxx-xxx"
  )
}

Sign into the second account

mutation {
  signIn(email: "[email protected]", password:"123") {
    id
    name
  }
}

Then accept the invite

mutation {
  acceptInviteById(
    inviteId: "copy-id-from-invite-mutation"
    sendAcceptMail: false
    workspaceId: "your-workspace-id"
  )
}

Anyway, that was my approach for now.

[krakowski]

It's actually quite simple to configure the mailing service. After deployment, I took a look inside the configuration directory which includes a file named affine.env.js containing all possible environment variable keys. Here's the section responsible for getting the SMTP config:

    MAILER_HOST: 'mailer.host',
    MAILER_PORT: ['mailer.port', 'int'],
    MAILER_USER: 'mailer.auth.user',
    MAILER_PASSWORD: 'mailer.auth.pass',
    MAILER_SENDER: 'mailer.from.address',
    MAILER_SECURE: ['mailer.secure', 'boolean'],

So you just need to pass in these environment variables during startup and all should be good.

[EYHN]

You should need to configure the mail service on the selfhost docker, we are preparing a document about this.

[EYHN]

We have a new document about all configurable environment variables.

https://docs.affine.pro/docs/self-host-affine/run-affine-with-custom-options

[fish-uncle]

By the way, I see that AFFiNE Cloud storage is 10GB, and there is a storage limit for self hosted?

[EYHN]

selfhost should have unlimited storage.

I haven't tested it yet, but if you encounter storage size limitations it should be a bug and you can open an issue.

[Jycreyn]

It's actually quite simple to configure the mailing service. After deployment, I took a look inside the configuration directory which includes a file named affine.env.js containing all possible environment variable keys. Here's the section responsible for getting the SMTP config:

    MAILER_HOST: 'mailer.host',
    MAILER_PORT: ['mailer.port', 'int'],
    MAILER_USER: 'mailer.auth.user',
    MAILER_PASSWORD: 'mailer.auth.pass',
    MAILER_SENDER: 'mailer.from.address',
    MAILER_SECURE: ['mailer.secure', 'boolean'],

So you just need to pass in these environment variables during startup and all should be good.

Hi, I tried your solution but not working for me. I want to configure gmail.

Can you help me ?

[yurisasc]

@Jycreyn I managed to get the mailing service working with Gmail.

You have the MAILER_HOST and MAILER_PORT correct.
MAILER_USER needs to be your email address
MAILER_PASSWORD is the app password that I set using this docs: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
I didn't have to set MAILER_SENDER.

[Jycreyn]

@yurisasc

Yeah, I used app password. You did not use "MAIL_SECURE" either ?

thanks

[yurisasc]

@Jycreyn no, I didn't

[Jycreyn]

@yurisasc

you left spaces in the password ?

[yurisasc]

@Jycreyn no, the password should be the 16 digits characters without spaces.

[Jycreyn]

@yurisasc

And not working

password is the 16 digit without the spacesn user is my email.

Anything wrong ?

Need to add something in docker compose ?

[yurisasc]

@Jycreyn did you add those environment variable to your docker compose file?
It should look like this for the environment variable of the affine container:

    environment:
      - NODE_OPTIONS="--import=./scripts/register.js"
      - AFFINE_CONFIG_PATH=/root/.affine/config
      - REDIS_SERVER_HOST=redis
      - DATABASE_URL=postgres://affine:affine@postgres:5432/affine
      - NODE_ENV=production
      - AFFINE_ADMIN_EMAIL=${AFFINE_ADMIN_EMAIL}
      - AFFINE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${AFFINE_ADMIN_PASSWORD}
      - AFFINE_SERVER_HOST=${AFFINE_SERVER_HOST}
      - AFFINE_SERVER_PORT=${AFFINE_SERVER_PORT}
      - AFFINE_SERVER_HTTPS=${AFFINE_SERVER_HTTPS}
      - MAILER_HOST=${MAILER_HOST}
      - MAILER_PORT=${MAILER_PORT}
      - MAILER_USER=${MAILER_USER}
      - MAILER_PASSWORD=${MAILER_PASSWORD}

[Jycreyn]

@yurisasc

Mhh no, i forgot to put it in docker compose. fck me ...

I see "affine server https" u managed to put it in HTTPS without reverse proxy ?

[Jycreyn]

@yurisasc

Okay mailer is working I can invite people !!

Thank you !

I'm missing something about HTTPS, i put the AFFINE_SERVER_HTTPS to true but not working; SSL error it's still in HTTP. What do i need to add ?

And also maybe you know, i can only have 3 members ? even in self host ? and for storage the same limited to 10gb in self?

Again thank you so much for you'r help

[yurisasc]

@Jycreyn Ah, I forgot to exclude those variables in my example. AFFINE_SERVER_HOST, AFFINE_SERVER_PORT, and AFFINE_SERVER_HTTPS are extra variables that I added myself and are not related to the mailing service.

To answer your question, yes. I use Cloudflared to expose my AFFiNE container publicly using my own domain, and it works with HTTPS; hence the extra variables above. It is out of the topic of this issue, so I will just add the docs here.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

[yurisasc]

@Jycreyn As for the members limit, I only added one other member and haven't added more. You can try adding more and let me know how it goes :). Also, I'm not sure about the storage limit.

[fish-uncle]

It's actually quite simple to configure the mailing service. After deployment, I took a look inside the configuration directory which includes a file named affine.env.js containing all possible environment variable keys. Here's the section responsible for getting the SMTP config:

    MAILER_HOST: 'mailer.host',
    MAILER_PORT: ['mailer.port', 'int'],
    MAILER_USER: 'mailer.auth.user',
    MAILER_PASSWORD: 'mailer.auth.pass',
    MAILER_SENDER: 'mailer.from.address',
    MAILER_SECURE: ['mailer.secure', 'boolean'],

So you just need to pass in these environment variables during startup and all should be good.

you sure these configuration items are included？
didn't see it in this link
https://docs.affine.pro/docs/self-host-affine

[yurisasc]

you sure these configuration items are included？ didn't see it in this link https://docs.affine.pro/docs/self-host-affine

Yes, those are the environment variables accessed by the app. We can add that to the container environment variables, and the app will be able to use them. We just need to add those in the docs, as it seems like it's still in progress.

[fish-uncle]

services:
  affine:
    image: ghcr.io/toeverything/affine-graphql:canary
    container_name: affine_selfhosted
    command:
      ['sh', '-c', 'node ./scripts/self-host-predeploy && node ./dist/index.js']
    ports:
      - '3010:3010'
      - '5555:5555'
    depends_on:
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy
      postgres:
        condition: service_healthy
    volumes:
      # custom configurations
      - /volume1/docker/affine/config:/root/.affine/config
      # blob storage
      - /volume1/docker/affine/storage:/root/.affine/storage
    #logging:
      #driver: 'json-file'
      #options:
        #max-size: '1000m'
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      #- NODE_OPTIONS=--es-module-specifier-resolution=node
      - NODE_OPTIONS="--import=./scripts/register.js"
      - AFFINE_CONFIG_PATH=/root/.affine/config
      - REDIS_SERVER_HOST=redis
      - DATABASE_URL=postgres://affine:affine@postgres:5432/affine
      - NODE_ENV=production
      - AFFINE_SERVER_HTTPS=false
      - AFFINE_ADMIN_EMAIL=***
      - AFFINE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=***
      #- SERVER_FLAVOR=selfhosted
      - MAILER_HOST=smtp.163.com
      - MAILER_PORT=25
      - MAILER_USER=***
      - MAILER_PASSWORD=***
  redis:
    image: redis
    container_name: affine_redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/affine/redis:/data
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', 'redis-cli', '--raw', 'incr', 'ping']
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
  postgres:
    image: postgres
    container_name: affine_postgres
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/affine/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'pg_isready -U affine']
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: affine
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: affine
      POSTGRES_DB: affine
      PGDATA: /var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata

send email error

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "message": "Failed to send invite email. Please try again.",
            "locations": [
                {
                    "line": 3,
                    "column": 3
                }
            ],
            "path": [
                "invite"
            ],
            "extensions": {
                "code": 500,
                "status": "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"
            }
        }
    ],
    "data": null
}

use /graphql same error

[EYHN]

@fish-uncle Sorry for the late reply.

According to this error, there may be a issue with your email configuration.

Are there any relevant error logs on the server?

Use docker compose tail to check the server logs.

[darkskygit]

services:
  affine:
    image: ghcr.io/toeverything/affine-graphql:canary
    container_name: affine_selfhosted
    command:
      ['sh', '-c', 'node ./scripts/self-host-predeploy && node ./dist/index.js']
    ports:
      - '3010:3010'
      - '5555:5555'
    depends_on:
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy
      postgres:
        condition: service_healthy
    volumes:
      # custom configurations
      - /volume1/docker/affine/config:/root/.affine/config
      # blob storage
      - /volume1/docker/affine/storage:/root/.affine/storage
    #logging:
      #driver: 'json-file'
      #options:
        #max-size: '1000m'
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      #- NODE_OPTIONS=--es-module-specifier-resolution=node
      - NODE_OPTIONS="--import=./scripts/register.js"
      - AFFINE_CONFIG_PATH=/root/.affine/config
      - REDIS_SERVER_HOST=redis
      - DATABASE_URL=postgres://affine:affine@postgres:5432/affine
      - NODE_ENV=production
      - AFFINE_SERVER_HTTPS=false
      - AFFINE_ADMIN_EMAIL=***
      - AFFINE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=***
      #- SERVER_FLAVOR=selfhosted
      - MAILER_HOST=smtp.163.com
      - MAILER_PORT=25
      - MAILER_USER=***
      - MAILER_PASSWORD=***
  redis:
    image: redis
    container_name: affine_redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/affine/redis:/data
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', 'redis-cli', '--raw', 'incr', 'ping']
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
  postgres:
    image: postgres
    container_name: affine_postgres
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/affine/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'pg_isready -U affine']
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: affine
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: affine
      POSTGRES_DB: affine
      PGDATA: /var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata

send email error

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "message": "Failed to send invite email. Please try again.",
            "locations": [
                {
                    "line": 3,
                    "column": 3
                }
            ],
            "path": [
                "invite"
            ],
            "extensions": {
                "code": 500,
                "status": "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"
            }
        }
    ],
    "data": null
}

use /graphql same error

I noticed that you are using a consumer-grade email provider.

For this type of email provider (including gmail, outlook, etc.), if you want to directly use the username-password method, you need to generate an "application-specific password".

For Google , you can generate here: https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords

For other email providers, you may need to find related options in the settings