`NOREPLY_EMAIL` is marked as optional but produces error regardless

[1ukastesar]

Describe the bug
NOREPLY_EMAIL in the config file (config.env) is documented the way that when it is not set, SUPPORT_EMAIL will be used instead - so as an optional setting.

But for some reason this doesn't work and produces error in the logs:

❌ Invalid environment variables: { NOREPLY_EMAIL: [ 'Invalid email' ] }

To Reproduce

1. Leave NOREPLY_EMAIL blank in the config.env
2. Run Rallly app (through e.g. docker compose up)

Expected behavior
The unset or empty variable should not print any error.

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• OS: Ubuntu 24.04
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• Version: v3.11.2

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[lukevella]

I can reproduce this if I leave NOREPLY_EMAIL inside config.env:

NOREPLY_EMAIL=

I imagine what's happening is that this is considered to be an empty string which is enough to trigger the email validation. Perhaps running email validation in this case is not really necessary or the validation can be modified to allow empty string. I will consider changing this.

In the mean time you should be able to comment the line out or remove it completely to fix it.

# NOREPLY_EMAIL=

[1ukastesar]

In the mean time you should be able to comment the line out or remove it completely to fix it.

# NOREPLY_EMAIL=

Thank you for your quick response. I can confirm that commenting the option out helps.

[satonotdead]

I can confirm that's not a bug but a missconfiguration on the template. Commenting the empty variable should to be the expected behavior.