diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 39ff610cddd00adb541bc6b6c9936165e215ceac..8280cab11be0048a6fbd6520252d6fd7fa9fd4d3 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
 ENV=development
+
+# When using the SMTP backend, specify how to connect to the SMTP server.
+# Documentation for these settings can be found in the Django Email docs:
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/email/#smtp-backend
+
+EMAIL_USE_TLS=True
+EMAIL_USE_SSL=None
+EMAIL_TIMEOUT=10
+EMAIL_WHITELIST=["user@cern.ch"]
+
 PROCESSOR=email
 CONSUMER_NAME=email_consumer
 PUBLISHER_NAME=email_publisher
@@ -13,15 +23,14 @@ DB_HOST=pg_db
 DB_PORT=5432
 DB_NAME=push_dev
 
-# When using the SMTP backend, specify how to connect to the SMTP server.
-# Documentation for these settings can be found in the Django Email docs:
-# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/email/#smtp-backend
+
+# Configuration for sending email to the console (uncomment to use it)
 EMAIL_HOST=localhost
 EMAIL_PORT=8025
 EMAIL_HOST_USER=user@cern.ch
 EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=password
-EMAIL_USE_TLS=None
-EMAIL_USE_SSL=None
-EMAIL_TIMEOUT=10
-EMAIL_WHITELIST=["user@cern.ch"]
 
+# Configuration for sending email to the emails in the whitelist (uncomment to use it)
+# EMAIL_HOST=cernmx.cern.ch
+# EMAIL_PORT=25
+# EMAIL_BACKEND=vendor.django_mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
diff --git a/.isort.cfg b/.isort.cfg
index f0ca762a30be730b77e6c414f22208214138ff49..d7148cf1b3dc0566361ee4c5d4a645fba9fef075 100644
--- a/.isort.cfg
+++ b/.isort.cfg
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ multi_line_output=3
 include_trailing_comma=True
 lines_after_imports=2
 not_skip=__init__.py
-known_third_party = jinja2,megabus,notifications_consumer,sqlalchemy,stomp,yaml
+known_third_party = jinja2,megabus,requests,sqlalchemy,stomp,yaml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2cacf1e9dc4402b4bd25a83513270879e7f56ef9..1326c87e856b1406b2c562e90292222b0bbc37c3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ This is the recommended method to develop.
 $ docker login gitlab-registry.cern.ch
 ```
 
+- As an optional but recommended step, you can rebuild the notifications-consumer container before start it. This step is necessary if dependencies were added or updated since the last image build since there will be probably a dependency error once the container is trying to start.
+```bash
+$ make docker-build
+```
+
 - Start the consumer container and ActiveMQ
 ```bash
 $ make docker-build-env