Emails in FAS

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sun Aug 29 01:00:46 UTC 2010


Starting from our upgrade to this afternoon emails in FAS weren't being
generated correctly.  The biggest impact from this was new users, who
signed up but never got their welcome email with a password.

I've corrected the issue (configuration needed to be set to smtp) and I've
sent emails to the impacted new users (there were 39 of them total).

The bigger thing here is that we need to think about how to do email in
staging.  Right now it's disabled.  I'd like emails that come through
those hosts to be easily identifiable somehow.

I'm open to ideas?  Is there a way to inject [staging] into their subject
with an appended --- staging body at the bottom so we can link to the wiki
explaining why they got the email and what it means.

Maybe even limit recipients.  My concern here is, lets say I'm testing
packagers.  If I apply for packagers in staging for testing.  All the
packagers (the actual ones) are going to get emails about it.  That's just
going to cause confusion.  I'd prefer that doesn't happen... so we
disabled emails altogether.  But clearly this fas error is a good reason
to be able to test emails in staging.

I'm open to ideas here, I'll keep chewing on it myself.

	-Mike


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