Admin email notification when a new user registers in GeoNode

[Slouis-afk]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to build a GeoNode (version 5) for production. My GeoNode runs in Docker, which I installed according to the official guide on the website.

One feature I would like is the following: when someone registers, the admin should receive an email so they can log into GeoNode and activate the user profile.

From what I understand, this feature already exists in GeoNode, but it does not seem to work for me. When I check the logs (Django and Celery), nothing happens when I register a new user.

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The first strange thing happens here:

/admin/pinax_notifications/noticesetting/

When I tick the "Sending" box, I get an error saying that the field where I put "email" is not a valid medium (with the message: "Choose a valid choice, 0 is not").

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I think that in my .env file everything is correctly configured:

EMAIL Notifications

EMAIL_ENABLE=True
DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND=django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST=****************
DJANGO_EMAIL_PORT=***********
DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST_USER=****
DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=***
DJANGO_EMAIL_USE_TLS=False
DJANGO_EMAIL_USE_SSL=True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL=*********

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When I try to send an email through the Docker container, it works:

docker compose exec django python manage.py shell -c "
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from pinax.notifications.backends.email import EmailBackend
from pinax.notifications.models import NoticeType

User = get_user_model()
admin = User.objects.get(username='admin')
notice_type = NoticeType.objects.get(label='account_approve')
backend = EmailBackend('2')

try:
backend.deliver(admin, admin, notice_type, {})
print('Email sent successfully!')
except Exception as e:
print('Error:', type(e).name, str(e))
"

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However, when a user registers, it seems that nothing is triggered and I do not receive any email.

Does anyone have an idea what could be missing or misconfigured?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[mattiagiupponi]

The env missing in this case is: ACCOUNT_APPROVAL_REQUIRED

as stated:

ACCOUNT_APPROVAL_REQUIRED

Default: False
Env: ACCOUNT_APPROVAL_REQUIRED
If ACCOUNT_APPROVAL_REQUIRED equals True, newly registered users must be activated by a superuser through the Admin gui, before they can access GeoNode.

can you try with that? the system should work automatically without the need to manually force the email send