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Hello,

first I would like to thank for this great project. I have a problem, though, after using this Gitlab setup with external volumes. When I used it without everything was working perfectly.

The problem is that I don't get any e-mails sent. First I thought naive everything would be installed automatically but then I saw that you need to use your own SMTP server.

So there is my setup that won’t work for my e-mail system. Some entries are redundant because I didn’t know which one I really need.

I would be really happy about your help!

docker run \
--name gitlabN_app \
--hostname myHost.com \
--link gitlabN-postgresql:postgresql \
--link gitlabN-redis:redisio \
--publish 2289:22 \
--publish 8929:80 \
-e 'GITLAB_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT=/git' \
-e 'VIRTUAL_HOST=myHost.com/git' \
-e 'PROXY_SUBDIR=/git' \
-e 'GITLAB_PORT=8929' \
-e 'GITLAB_SSH_PORT=2289' \
-e 'GITLAB_EMAIL_ENABLED=true‘ \
-e 'GITLAB_ROOT_EMAIL=mail@myHost.com‘ \
-e 'GITLAB_ROOT_PASSWORD= xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx‚ \
-e 'GITLAB_EMAIL=mail@myHost.com’ \
-e 'GITLAB_EMAIL_DISPLAY_NAME=Gitlab DIVA’ \
-e 'SMTP_HOST=smtp.myHost.com’ \
-e 'SMTP_USER=user’ \
-e 'SMTP_PASS= xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’ \
-e 'GITLAB_SECRETS_DB_KEY_BASE=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx‘ \
-e 'GITLAB_SECRETS_OTP_KEY_BASE= xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' \
-e 'GITLAB_SECRETS_SECRET_KEY_BASE= xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' \
--volume ${HOST_PATH}/data:/var/opt/gitlab \
--volume ${HOST_PATH}/log:/var/log/gitlab \
--volume ${HOST_PATH}/config:/etc/gitlab \
sameersbn/gitlab:latest

Something else I don’t understand. When I connect to the running docker container I cannot access gitlab-ctl there, but in the main system. I only get errors then asking for the status:

service@ubuntu-git:~$ sudo gitlab-ctl status
fail: gitlab-workhorse: runsv not running
fail: logrotate: runsv not running
fail: postgresql: runsv not running
fail: redis: runsv not running
fail: sidekiq: runsv not running
fail: unicorn: runsv not running

service@ubuntu-git:$ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check
[sudo] password for service: 
Rails Error: Unable to access log file. Please ensure that /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/log/production.log exists and is writable (ie, make it writable for user and group: chmod 0664 /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/log/production.log). The log level has been raised to WARN and the output directed to STDERR until the problem is fixed.
** [Raven] Raven 0.15.6 configured not to send errors.
rake aborted!
Cannot load `Rails.application.database_configuration`:
Could not load database configuration. No such file - ["config/database.yml"]
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb:110:in `database_configuration'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.6/lib/active_record/railtie.rb:117:in `block (2 levels) in <class:Railtie>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:38:in `instance_eval'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:38:in `execute_hook'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:28:in `block in on_load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:27:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:27:in `on_load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.6/lib/active_record/railtie.rb:116:in `block in <class:Railtie>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `instance_exec'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `run'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/initializable.rb:55:in `block in run_initializers'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/initializable.rb:54:in `run_initializers'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/application.rb:352:in `initialize!'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/environment.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:274:in `require'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:274:in `block in require'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:240:in `load_dependency'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:274:in `require'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/application.rb:328:in `require_environment!'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/application.rb:457:in `block in run_tasks_blocks'
Could not load database configuration. No such file - ["config/database.yml"]
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb:110:in `database_configuration'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.6/lib/active_record/railtie.rb:117:in `block (2 levels) in <class:Railtie>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:38:in `instance_eval'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:38:in `execute_hook'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:28:in `block in on_load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:27:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:27:in `on_load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.6/lib/active_record/railtie.rb:116:in `block in <class:Railtie>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `instance_exec'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `run'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/initializable.rb:55:in `block in run_initializers'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/initializable.rb:54:in `run_initializers'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/application.rb:352:in `initialize!'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/environment.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:274:in `require'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:274:in `block in require'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:240:in `load_dependency'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:274:in `require'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/application.rb:328:in `require_environment!'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.2.6/lib/rails/application.rb:457:in `block in run_tasks_blocks'
Tasks: TOP => gitlab:check => gitlab:gitlab_shell:check => environment

Start with the docker run environment variables and mounted /etc/gitlab, then run gitlab-ctl status and gitlab-rake gitlab:check inside the container rather than on the host. Check the reported production.log and config/database.yml paths while tracing the SMTP settings; done means the container services run and test mail is delivered.