So, it’s taken me a period of time to get my self-hosted environment to finally work with my hotmail.com account for email. Setting up email/SMTP in the global.override.env allows me to be able to set up email alerts, verification, and the admin portal that I just learned about. So here is the global.override.env line entries that got my email account for hotmail to work as SMTP for my self-hosted instance. I hope this helps others.
[email protected]
globalSettings__mail__smtp__host=smtp.office365.com
globalSettings__mail__smtp__port=587
globalSettings__mail__smtp__ssl=true
[email protected]
globalSettings__mail__smtp__password=AppPassword
globalSettings__mail__smtp__startTls=true