How use environment variables

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I’m using nodemailer as the email provider, and when using the env function, it returns undefined. For example:

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
email: {
    provider: env('EMAIL-PROVIDER'),
    providerOptions: {
      host: env('EMAIL-HOST'),
      port: env('EMAIL-PORT'),
      auth: {
        user: env('EMAIL-USER'),
        pass: env('EMAIL-PASS'),
      },
    },
    settings: {
      defaultFrom: env('EMAIL-USER'),
      defaultReplyTo: env('EMAIL-USER'),
    },
  }
});

It turns out that all those environment variables return undefined, therefore the provider does not work, I must clarify that I have a .env.email file in /config/.env.email , and in that same location I have the file plugins.js where I export the previous module. How use .env files in strapi ?. Any example?

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I usually put .env file at the root of the project directory.

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Fill your environment variables with each corresponding values :

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Thanks, it worked, the problem was that I was adding an extension to .env like for example: .env.email

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Nice! Happy to help.