Tutor config save is not working in setting EMAIL_HOST

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My env is tutor 14.0.5, ubuntu 20.04 (digitalocean) using docker 20.10.21 and docker-compose 2.12.2.
I want to use mailjet as the smtp server. Below are my steps.

$ tutor config save --set DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL="myname@myhost.com"  --set CONTACT_EMAIL="myname@myhost.com" --set EMAIL_HOST="in-v3.mailjet.com" --set EMAIL_PORT="465" --set EMAIL_USE_TLS=true --set EMAIL_HOST_USER="Mailjet_API_Key" --set EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD="Mailjet_Secret"

(I already used the above configuration in thunderbird successfully.

in $(tutor config printroot)/config.yml I got

CONTACT_EMAIL: myname@myhost.com
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL: myname@myhost.com
EMAIL_HOST: in-v3.mailjet.com
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD: Mailjet_Secret
EMAIL_HOST_USER: Mailjet_API_Key
EMAIL_PORT: 465
EMAIL_USE_TLS: true

these look good. then I do

$ tutor local quickstart

then I check $(tutor config printroot)/env/apps/openedx/config/lms.env.yml

CONTACT_EMAIL: "myname@myhost.com"  (**this is the only field changed successfully**)
EMAIL_HOST: "smtp"
EMAIL_PORT: 8025
EMAIL_USE_TLS: false
EMAIL_HOST_USER: ""
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD: ""

when issue “forgot password” from UI, I record the logs of smtp_1

smtp_1                       | 2022-11-15 20:49:29 1ov2s4-00000A-Io <= myname@myhost.com H=(c60635618ce4) [172.18.0.7] P=esmtp S=10716 id=166854536856.7.7046375211031467318@c60635618ce4
smtp_1                       | 2022-11-15 20:49:29 1ov2s4-00000A-Io H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [2404:6800:4003:c11::1b] Address not available
smtp_1                       | 2022-11-15 20:49:30 1ov2s4-00000A-Io ** myname@gmail.com R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [172.217.194.26] X=TLS1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=yes: SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550-5.7.1 **[my.server.ip.address]** The IP you're using to send mail is not authorized\n550-5.7.1 to send email directly to our servers. Please use the SMTP relay at\n550-5.7.1 your service provider instead. Learn more at\n550 5.7.1  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NotAuthorizedError s4-20020a056a00178400b0056c01ece001si14693342pfg.252 - gsmtp
smtp_1                       | 2022-11-15 20:49:30 1ov2s6-00000D-GS <= <> R=1ov2s4-00000A-Io U=exim P=local S=12788
smtp_1                       | 2022-11-15 20:49:30 1ov2s4-00000A-Io Completed
=> **my.server.ip.address is my server IP. so it is still sending email from my server instead of mailjet server**

How can I get the new values into configuration correctly?
Thanks for your help in advanced.

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How did you decide to setup these settings? This is not how Tutor works. You need to understand that there is a difference between edx-platform settings and the Tutor configuration. See for instance:

https://docs.tutor.overhang.io/configuration.html#smtp
https://docs.tutor.overhang.io/tutorials/google-smtp.html
https://docs.tutor.overhang.io/intro.html#how-does-tutor-work

You should also search for similar questions in this forum, many people have asked how to configure a third party SMTP server.

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Hi,

Have you already disabled the smtp that tutor installs?

tutor config save --set RUN_SMTP=false

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Thanks a lot. This resolves configuration issue. I got confused when google “openedx tutor smtp”, this “How to setup smtp email in production - #18 by Herve_siyou” shows up the first. I should have read the instructions carefully. tutor/google-smtp.rst at master · overhangio/tutor · GitHub has an example.
$ tutor config save
–set SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
–set SMTP_PORT=587
–set SMTP_USE_SSL=false
–set SMTP_USE_TLS=true
–set SMTP_USERNAME=YOURUSERNAME@gmail.com
–set SMTP_PASSWORD=‘YOURPASSWORD’

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Thanks for helping. The above post resolves my issue.

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