Verify Email and SMTP settings for Self-Hosted Vault

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1

I have set up my self-hosted Vault and on the main page, there is this option box…

https://imgur.com/a/c4kQtDQ

…do I need to complete this if I am the only user of this Vault and what benefit is there in setting up SMTP for my usage?

Paul

2

If you ever need recovery emails, organization invites emails or anything like that it wont work. Also, if you don’t configure SMTP you cannot access the system admin portal.

3

I understand, so if my cloud Linux server already has system wide SMTP set up then I just plumb that in to the global.override.env file and I can then ‘verify email’ and go forward from there?

Will the Docker container be able to access the ‘localhost’ host’s SMTP server?

(FYI, my cloud server has a web application firewall that only allows certain static IP addresses to access Bitwarden ports)

4

You can access localhost from within a docker container, through you likely need to adjust some docker settings so that the host is available on the docker network.