SMTP settings not being deployed

I have the SMTP settings defined in gitlab.rb but it looks like they’re not taking effect and gitlab is defaulting to using postfix on localhost instead.

Likewise I can manually add the /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/smtp_settings.rb and link it to /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/initializers/smtp_settings.rb and restart gitlab which will use those settings and appear to work but it will get deleted on the next re-configuration.

gitlab-ctl reconfigure | grep smtp

• templatesymlink[Create a smtp_settings.rb and create a symlink to Rails root] action delete
  • file[/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/etc/smtp_settings.rb] action delete (up to date)
  • link[/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/initializers/smtp_settings.rb] action delete (up to date)

Running 11.6.3 (Just upgraded from 11.6.1 to see if that fixed the problem) on Ubuntu 16.04

Got it

For reference it looks like someone had put the SMTP block early in the gitlab.rb file and put

gitlab_rails[‘gitlab_smtp_enable’] = true

where it should be

gitlab_rails['smtp_enable'] = true

Also I removed this configuration block and found the configuration block father down in the file that starts

GitLab email server settings

So I put the configuration there and it’s happy now.