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Email

Sentry provides support for both outbound, and incoming email.

Inbound email is fairly limited in use, and currently it only supports processing replies to error and note notifications.

Outbound Email

You'll need to configure an SMTP provider for outbound email.

TODO: Document mail preview backend.

mail.backend
Declared in `config.yml`.

The backend to be used for email delivery. Options are smtp, console, and dummy.

Defaults to smtp. Use dummy if you’d like to disable email delivery.

mail.from
Declared in `config.yml`.

The email address used for outbound email in the From header.

Defaults to root@localhost. It’s highly recommended to change this value to ensure reliable email delivery.

mail.host
Declared in `config.yml`.

The hostname to connect to for SMTP connections.

Defaults to localhost.

mail.port
Declared in `config.yml`.

The port to connect to for SMTP connections.

Defaults to 25.

mail.username
Declared in `config.yml`.

The username to use when authenticating with the SMTP server.

Defaults to (empty).

mail.password
Declared in `config.yml`.

The password to use when authenticating with the SMTP server.

Defaults to (empty).

mail.use-tls
Declared in `config.yml`.

Should Sentry use TLS when connecting to the SMTP server?

Defaults to false.

mail.list-namespace
Declared in `config.yml`.

The mailing list namespace for emails sent by this Sentry server. This should be a domain you own (often the same domain as the domain part of the mail.from configuration parameter value) or localhost.

Inbound Email

For configuration you can pick from different backends.

Mailgun

Start by choosing a domain to handle inbound email. We find it easiest if you maintain a separate domain from anything else. In our example, we’re going to choose inbound.sentry.example.com. You’ll need to configure your DNS records for the given domain according to the Mailgun documentation.

Create a new route in mailgun:

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Priority:
  0
Filter Expression:
  catch_all()
Actions:
  forward("https://sentry.example.com/api/hooks/mailgun/inbound/")
Description:
  Sentry inbound handler

Configure Sentry with the appropriate settings:

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# Your Mailgun API key (used to verify incoming webhooks)
mail.mailgun-api-key: ""

# Set the SMTP hostname to your configured inbound domain
mail.reply-hostname: "inbound.sentry.example.com"

# Inform Sentry to send the appropriate mail headers to enable
# incoming replies
mail.enable-replies: true

That’s it! You’ll now be able to respond to activity notifications on errors via your email client.

And finally, update Sentry with the appropriate settings:

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# Set the SMTP hostname to your configured inbound domain
mail.reply-hostname: "inbound.sentry.example.com"

# Inform Sentry to send the appropriate mail headers to enable
# incoming replies
mail.enable-replies: true

That’s it! You’ll now be able to respond to activity notifications on errors via your email client.

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