Customizing emails - followed docs but its not working

[magick93]

Hello

I"m following the guides on https://supabase.com/docs/guides/cli/customizing-email-templates.
I'm trying to customize the email confirmation email.

I've added the following to the config.toml:

[auth.email.template.confirmation]
subject = "Confirm you email address"
content_path = "./supabase/templates/confirmation-email.html"

There seems to be a file check - if I modify the content_path from what is above, I get a nice error, eg:

failed to read file info: stat ./supabase/templates/confirmation-email.html-test: no such file or directory

So I'm somewhat confident that supabase is finding my email template.

However, the customized email is never sent.

Any help is appreciated.

[stursby]

@magick93 Same here. I built a custom confirmation email, and it lives in my Git Repo at ./supabase/templates/confirm.html with the following (same as yours) TOML config:

# Uncomment to customize email template
[auth.email.template.confirmation]
subject = "[CUSTOM TEST] Confirm"
content_path = "./supabase/templates/confirm.html"

I've also connected my Supabase project to the GitHub repo so it should, in theory, be able to find those files 🤷‍♂️

Did you end up solving it?

[sp88011]

Same Problem here. Anyone have any luck?

[magick93]

I was able to resolve this by running supabase stop then supabase start.

[sp88011]

Thank you, this solves it for me too.

[jonathanlal]

damn this is annoying... Those files are only relevant for local right? Since you edit the email templates through the dashboard.... Stopping supabase locally seemed to help but why? Don't want to have to stop it everytime i push something

[icopp]

Same problem here. supabase stop && supabase start doesn't help. I know the docker image can see the files as they show up as valid binds on the supabase_kong_(projectname) container and I can see the mounted files inside the container's file structure. There are no error logs or anything else to indicate why it's not working.

[denizkenan]

Same issue.
I can see that my config picks up subject correctly but ignores template content_path.

[denizkenan]

if template has any issues (typo, unsupported tag etc..), it falls back to the default template.

use a minimal template such as:
confirmation.html:

<h2>Sign up confirmation</h2>

<p>Thank you for signing up! To complete the registration process and gain access to our platform, please click the link below to confirm your account:</p>

<p><a href="{{ .SiteURL }}/auth/confirm?token_hash={{ .TokenHash }}&type=email">Confirm your email address</a></p>

to test the config first.

[marius-se]

We tested @denizkenan 's solution (using a minimal html template), but for us it still renders the default template.