Using env:AEM_PROXY_HOST in the code

[nbg62]

We're using javax.mail in our code to send emails and we're also having a custom osgi config to store host, port, etc...

com.company.config.CompanyEmailService.cfg.json

{
"mail.smtp.host":"$[env:AEM_PROXY_HOST;default=proxy.tunnel]",
"mail.smtp.port":"30002",

.

.

}

How we can "make" aem to transform from this $[env:AEM_PROXY_HOST;default=proxy.tunnel] to something that we defined under advanced networking configuration.

{
            "name": "smtp.gmail.com",
            "portDest": 465,
            "portOrig": 30002            
}

When mail.smtp.host is read from our custom config it stays unchanged and mail can't be send because it's using this string as is as a server name,  $[env:AEM_PROXY_HOST;default=proxy.tunnel],

Thanks

[Jagadeesh_Prakash]

Hi @nbg62 

SMTP configuration can be done as below example

{
  "debug.email": false,
  "smtp.user": "$[secret:smtpuser]",
  "smtp.password": "$[secret:smtppassword]",
  "smtp.port": 465,
  "smtp.ssl": true,
  "smtp.starttls": true,
  "smtp.host": "in.mailjet.com",
  "from.address": "XXXXXXXXXX"
}

And also you can refer to below URL as well

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/cloud-service/networking/examples/e...

[nbg62]

I understand that on Aem Cloud, port forwarding is required and $[env:AEM_PROXY_HOST;default=proxy.tunnel] needs to be used as stated in the URL that you shared ?

[Jagadeesh_Prakash]

@nbg62 It is not necessarly needed to every time use $[env:AEM_PROXY_HOST;default=proxy.tunnel] syntax. Still the old way of implementation on-prem works. 

This will be used only when we have 2 environment with same runmode. for ex: Dev and QA

In cloud dev and qa both are considered as dev environments so we can not have 2 different configurations. So it is recommanded to use $[env:AEM_PROXY_HOST;default=proxy.tunnel] way of implementation 

[nbg62]

Thanks  Jagadeesh,

I don't follow you on this, "This will be used only when we have 2 environment with same runmode. for ex: Dev and QA", I can distinguish every config/env, like config.author.dev, config.author.stage, etc...

Can you tell how's $[env:AEM_PROXY_HOST;default=proxy.tunnel]  mapped internally ?

[Jagadeesh_Prakash]

@nbg62  Please refer to below URL

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/implementing/using-...

[nbg62 · Accepted solution]

We managed to resolved the issue by using System.getenv("AEM_PROXY_HOST")  in our code.