Hi,
I’ve succesfully installed passbolt on Docker.
I would like to share my experience with the struggle I had to set up email notifiations correctly.
Long stoy short : documentation would be much better with example values and basic usecases illustrations 
Long story :
I used the documentation available in this README.md : https://github.com/passbolt/passbolt_docker
Some options are not well explained, namely :
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EMAIL_TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_HOST : I happened to NEED to put ‘ssl://some-smtp-host-name’ in order to have things work. Maybe it’s just me ?
- nowhere in the documentation did I find this ‘ssl://’ string
- as a result the value is NOT the host, but an URL so it’s confusing
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EMAIL_TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_URL : see above, what is this and how is it related to the smtp hostname ?
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EMAIL_DEFAUT_TRANSPORT … ?
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EMAIL_TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_TLS : does it require a ‘1’ a ‘True’ a ‘true’, or a TLS version ?
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EMAIL_TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_CLASS_NAME : defaults to Smtp but what are the other values ?
At some point, digging into Cake PHP helped a bit,
but I would really have appreciated some ‘example values’
Maybe I should open another ticket for below remarks, but at some point I needed to use a SMTP that does not need authentication. It is a free GSuite smtp-relay that you can use provided you whitelist source IP and email domain names.
I did not manage to do that.
I used this command to debug things :
docker exec passbolt su -m -c "/var/www/passbolt/bin/cake passbolt send_test_email --recipient=my@email.com" -s /bin/sh www-data
it always displays a username and password line, so I don"t know if it was only displayed or set to nil or blank values or what. Anyhow, smtp always refused to work.
i tried to set ‘EMAIL_TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_USERNAME’ to something, blank string, null, not set it at all.
Same thing for password. Never made it work.
(Note that it works fine from the scanners/printers I have configured, and for any devices that send reports by email)
thanks for reading !
kind regards