Email delivery

Overleaf supports sending email through two methods: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). SMTP can be used if you have an email server enabled on your localhost that is listening for local connections.

Configuration

Email is configured using the following environmental variables.

Sender Configuration

Name	Description
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS	The from address e.g. '[e-mail]' - Required: yes
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_REPLY_TO	The reply to address e.g. '[e-mail]'

SMTP

Name	Description
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_HOST	The hostname or IP address to connect to. Needs to be accessible from the Docker container
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_PORT	The port to connect to
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_SECURE	If true the connection will use TLS when connecting to server. If false or not set, then TLS is used if server supports the STARTTLS extension. In most cases set this value to true if you are connecting to port 465. For port 587 or 25 keep it false
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_USER	The username that should be used to authenticate against the SMTP server
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_PASS	The password associated with the SMTP username
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTH	If 'false' this would open a connection to TLS server with self-signed or invalid TLS certificate
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_IGNORE_TLS	When true and OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_SECURE is false then TLS is not used even if the server supports STARTTLS extension
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_NAME	Optional hostname for TLS validation if OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_HOST was set to an IP address, defaults to hostname of the machine.
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_LOGGER	When true prints logging messages to web.log.

Amazon SES SMTP interface

You can read more about using the Amazon SES SMTP interface to send email here.

Name	Description
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_HOST	The hostname or IP address to connect to. Needs to be accessible from the Docker container
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_PORT	The port to connect to
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_USER	The username that should be used to authenticate against the SMTP server
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_SMTP_PASS	The password associated with the SMTP username

Amazon SES API

You can read more about using the Amazon SES API to send email here.

Name	Description
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_AWS_SES_ACCESS_KEY_ID	If using AWS SES the access key
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_AWS_SES_SECRET_KEY	If using AWS SES the secret key
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_AWS_SES_REGION	If not set, the default region is US-EAST-1

AWS SES with Instance Roles

Name	Description
OVERLEAF_EMAIL_DRIVER:	When this is set to ses, the email system will use the SES API method and rely on the configured instance roles to send email.

Customisation

Name	Description
OVERLEAF_CUSTOM_EMAIL_FOOTER	Custom HTML which is appended to all emails. e.g. Example: "<div>This system is run by department x </div> <div> If you have any questions please look at our faq <a href='https://somwhere.com'>here</a></div>"