Re: Questions with setting up aurweb instance

24 Jun 2021


      I'm doing some more testing, but SMTP still isn't working.

I created a testing script at /home/test.sh that contained `echo ${@} 
&> /tmp/asdf.log` so I could see if its even attempting to send mail, 
but that file didn't even get created.
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If neither is working, then check out the send() function in 
aurweb/scripts/notify.py, the smtplib interactions are fairly simple 
and I'm not sure what the problem might be.
Am I able to run the send function manually somehow, so I could see 
what errors it produces? I'm seeing the `aurweb-notify` command is 
available, but I'm not sure what argument I would pass it.
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*Hunter Wittenborn*
hunter@hunterwittenborn.com

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 5:13 pm, Hunter Wittenborn 
 wrote:
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Just reporting back on the issues I had:
The SMTP issue was due to my VPS provider blocking the standard email 
ports (25, 465, 587). They let me get them unblocked through 
contacting them though, and I imagine it'll work just fine after.
Then I just need to get the TU stuff set up, but that shouldn't be 
too hard (hopefully).
Again, thanks!
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*Hunter Wittenborn*
hunter@hunterwittenborn.com
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 4:22 pm, Hunter Wittenborn via aur-dev 
 wrote:
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If it is not set, then you'll need the other keys in the 
[notifications]
section (the smtp-* ones) correctly configured for the python 
"smtplib"
library to communicate with an MTA that will send messages on your 
behalf.
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If neither is working, then check out the send() function in
aurweb/scripts/notify.py, the smtplib interactions are fairly simple 
and
I'm not sure what the problem might be.
Sounds good, I'll check things out. Just wanted to confirm I wasn't 
missing a value in the config or anything.
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Our production instance had those manually set up and accounts have
always been migrated, never re-inited from scratch. You need to 
create
or modify an account with the SQL field AccountTypeID set to 2.
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You can take a look at the script which generates random data for 
dev
purposes located in schema/gendummydata.py [1]
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The script generates random accounts including Trusted Users with
password same as username.
<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/blob/master/schema/gendummyd...>
If I can get this working, I don't see much of a need to implement 
anything new (unless aurweb is being used by a crazy ton of 
less-experienced people or something). I imagine I could just 
automate it into a Bash script after I figured out the commands if I 
really needed to.
Ideally I'm gonna try to not upgrade this a ton too, as I'm making a 
decent amount of changes in the GUI, and I don't want to deal with a 
bunch of hassle over and over.
Thanks! I'll send a message if it's still not working right.
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*Hunter Wittenborn*
hunter@hunterwittenborn.com mailto:hunter@hunterwittenborn.com