I was trying to setup SendGrid as email provider for Metabase. According to SendGrid documentation the username and password (api key) should be base64 encoded.
I did the following
- I entered my details in metabase then clicked save
- Got a green button that everything was saved ok
- Tried to send a test email from a pulse, got a green button that everything was ok
No email arrived so I checked the logs and I found this interesting message:
INFO metabase.models.setting Attempted to set Setting email-smtp-password to obfuscated value. Ignoring change.
What is the point of this? Why do you care about how my passwords look like and if they are obfuscated or not?
I mean…I hope my passwords doesn´t leave my metabase instance…right?
Hi @AndreJ82
Please post “Diagnostic Info” from Admin > Troubleshooting.
Your connection credentials - database, email, etc - are not send to other places than the hosts configured, if that’s your question.
Have you tried to send a test-mail from the setup? Admin > Settings > Email
Also check the log for more details. Admin > Troubleshooting > Logs
You should only be seeing that error, when trying to save a password that contains 10 characters of * (wildcard character), and two other characters:
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/blob/dee2eb852ceb8773f8ed4e3c1ece60e5c93b38f8/src/metabase/models/setting.clj#L271-L307
This could happen in case of form re-save or a form/password manager doing something it shouldn’t in your browser.