Questions with setting up aurweb instance

[Hunter Wittenborn]

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.

 > 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 at hunterwittenborn.com

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 5:13 pm, Hunter Wittenborn 
<hunter at hunterwittenborn.com> wrote:
> 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!
> ---
> *Hunter Wittenborn*
> hunter at hunterwittenborn.com
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 4:22 pm, Hunter Wittenborn via aur-dev 
> <aur-dev at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>>  > 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.
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> > You can take a look at the script which generates random data for 
>> dev
>> purposes located in schema/gendummydata.py [1]
>> 
>> > The script generates random accounts including Trusted Users with
>> password same as username.
>> <<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/blob/master/schema/gendummydata.py#L154-186>>
>> 
>> 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.
>> ---
>> *Hunter Wittenborn*
>> hunter at hunterwittenborn.com <mailto:hunter at hunterwittenborn.com>
>> 
>>