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+# Example environment configuration to be copied to .env and adjusted
+
+# Django configuration
+DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=my-secret-key # use a strong secret key
+DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost,172.0.0.1,roombooking.example.org # adjust this to your domain
+# DJANGO_DATA_DIR=/data # uncomment and adjust this if you want to store data somewhere else than the default ./data docker volume
+# DJANGO_DEBUG=1 # uncomment this line to enable debug mode
+
+# Email configuration
+SMTP_EMAIL=admin@roombooking@example.org # adjust this to your email
+# SMTP_USER_NAME=roombookingsystem # uncomment and adjust this if your SMTP server requires authentication: default is to use SMTP_EMAIL as username
+SMTP_PASSWORD=your-smtp-password # adjust this to your SMTP password
+SMTP_SERVER=mail.example.org # adjust this to your SMTP server
+SMTP_PORT=465 # adjust this to your SMTP port
+# SMTP_STARTTLS=1 # uncomment this line if your SMTP server requires STARTTLS
+SMTP_SENDER_NAME="Room Booking System" # adjust this if you want
+# SMTP_BCC=admin@example.org # adjust this to your email if you want to receive a copy of all emails sent
+
+# Application configuration
+MAX_SEARCH_HORIZON=14 # batch size for calendar queries, in days
+
+# Logging configuration
+FILE_LOG_LEVEL=INFO # DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL
+STDOUT_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG # DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL
+LOGROTATE_BACKUP_COUNT=10 # number of rotated log files to keep
+LOGROTATE_MAX_BYTES=10485760 # max size in bytes of log file before rotating, default 10MB
+# LOG_DIR=/data/room-booking.logs # uncomment and adjust this if you want to store logs somewhere else than the default ./data docker volume