Get an email alert on new photo uploaded

[mart-e]

Hello,

I want to share a Lychee album to relatives but want them to receive an alert when new images are uploaded (as they would with Google Photo when subscribing to an article).
Is it something that is possible/planned with Lychee?

Thank you

[ildyria]

Hi @mart-e

I do not use the mailing features, so all I can do is give you some direction on how to set it up and the rest you will need to dig yourself.

First of all you need to set up the proper environment variables.

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=
MAIL_PORT=
MAIL_USERNAME=
MAIL_PASSWORD=
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=
MAIL_FROM_NAME=
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=

Then for them to receive such mails, you will need to create a user account in Lychee and add the target email to this account.
In Lychee settings, look for the setting new_photos_notification or "Enable notifications when new photos are added" in the "Basic" section with expert mode toggled on.

Then whenever you run in CLI php artisan lychee:photos_added_notification, they should get mails with the new pictures, I would suggest that you set up a CRON job for that.

Untested. But it should be working.

[mart-e]

I see, thank you, I missed the option in the email. I just tested but got no email, but not sure if it’s an issue of configuration. Will investigate that!

[hyazinthh]

@mart-e this feature has been broken for some time apparently, but should be fixed now: #4244