# SMTP settings not applied by openEdx Juniper.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/smtp-settings-not-applied-by-openedx-juniper-3/3554>\
**Category:** Site Operations Help\
**Created:** [November 4, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/smtp-settings-not-applied-by-openedx-juniper-3/3554 "2020-11-04T15:57:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrisbst43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@chrisbst43](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/chrisbst43)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/smtp-settings-not-applied-by-openedx-juniper-3/3554/1 "2020-11-04T15:57:59Z")

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Hello,

I am having trouble to setup my local insance of openEdx (Virtualbox guest). I ran throught lot of web pages and tutorials but nothing fixed my issue. My version is Juniper.3

Basically, I am trying to setup SMTP by using the recommended files (thus no common.py) :  
/edx/app/edxapp/lms.auth.json

- “EMAIL\_HOST\_PASSWORD”: “Mypwd”
- “EMAIL\_HOST\_USER”: “notification@email”

/edx/app/edxapp/cms.auth.json

- “EMAIL\_HOST\_PASSWORD”: “Mypwd”
- “EMAIL\_HOST\_USER”: “notification@email”

/edx/app/edxapp/lms.env.json

- “DEFAULT\_FROM\_EMAIL”: “notification@email”
- “EMAIL\_BACKEND”: “django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend”
- “EMAIL\_HOST”: “ooo.mail.ooo”
- “EMAIL\_PORT”: 587
- “EMAIL\_USE\_TLS”: true

/edx/app/edxapp/cms.env.json

- “DEFAULT\_FROM\_EMAIL”: “notification@email”
- “EMAIL\_BACKEND”: “django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend”
- “EMAIL\_HOST”: “ooo.mail.ooo”
- “EMAIL\_PORT”: 587
- “EMAIL\_USE\_TLS”: true

Then I updated my openEdx like this :  
/edx/bin/supervisorctl restart lms  
/edx/bin/supervisorctl restart cms  
/edx/bin/supervisorctl restart edxapp\_worker:

Restarts are all done ok but when I am trying to send activation email, nothing come up ?

I had a look in /edx/var/log/lms/edx.log and no error warning that may help…

I tried to figure out what may be the network traffic coming from my openEdx with Wireshark and absolutely nothing intresting is put through…

If somebody could provide me with some help that would be great.

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**Author:** ![sambapete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/sambapete/32/4100_2.png) [@sambapete](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/sambapete)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/smtp-settings-not-applied-by-openedx-juniper-3/3554/2 "2020-11-04T17:25:03Z")

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Juniper doesn’t use the files lms.env.json, lms.auth,json, cms.env.json or cms.auth.json in /edx/app/edxapp anymore for configuration.

The new files to use are in /edx/etc/lms.yml and /edx/etc/studio.yml