kimai2/var/docs/emails.md

Emails

Kimai uses the Swift MailerBundle for sending emails. Please read their documentation, there are a lot of possible configuration settings that you might want to adapt to your needs.

If not otherwise noted, all emails will be sent instantly (unless spooling is activated in swiftmailer.yaml).

Activating email

You have to adapt two settings in your .env configuration file:

• MAILER_URL - your smtp connection details for sending emails
• MAILER_FROM - an application wide "from" address for all emails

All existing emails

The following emails will be sent by Kimai:

Security related emails

If you want to change the content of the emails, please have a look at the FOSUserBundle config and its documentation.

• Password reset
• Account approval (only if activated, see User docu)

Troubleshooting

You can test your email configuration with the command bin/console -vv swiftmailer:email:send, which will ask you for all required fields:

• to
• from
• subject
• body

The email will be sent using the transport from your configured MAILER_URL.

SMTP does not accept emails

If you have the following error in your logfile:

app.ERROR: Exception occurred while flushing email queue: Expected response code 354 but got code "503", with message "503-All RCPT commands were rejected with this error: 503-R1: HELO should be a FQDN or address literal (See RFC 2821 4.1.1.1) 503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA " [] []

you might suffer from a wrong configuration (read the documentation linked above) and try a full featured SMTP URL with a dedicated user account for authentication:

MAILER_URL=smtp://username:password@mx.example.com:587?encryption=tls&auth_mode=plain

Password should not contain URL characters like '&@:', which can cause problems parsing the SMTP URL. If you have to use one of these characters, you need to adjust the swiftmailer configuration at config/packages/swiftmailer.yaml.

If that still doesn't help, try to set a local_domain in the file config/packages/local.yaml:

swiftmailer:
    local_domain: 'kimai.local' 

This local_domain will be used for the HELO command when SwiftMailer contacts your SMTP.