I ran
[MacBook-Pro-10:~/apache/git/whimsy] clr% ruby tools/testmail.rb
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:40:56 -0700
From: Craig L Russell <[email protected]>
To: Craig L Russell <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: test mail
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
sent from MacBook-Pro-10.local
with my ~/.whimsy:
:sendmail:
delivery_method: smtp
address: smtp.gmail.com
port: 587
domain: apache.org
user_name: '[email protected]'
password: 'noyb'
authentication: plain
enable_starttls_auto: true
I verified I can login to gmail with the password but I still get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
8: from tools/testmail.rb:29:in `<main>'
7: from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/mail-2.7.1/lib/mail/message.rb:276:in
`deliver!'
6: from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/mail-2.7.1/lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb:100:in
`deliver!'
5: from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/mail-2.7.1/lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb:109:in
`start_smtp_session'
4: from
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:518:in `start'
3: from
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:565:in `do_start'
2: from
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:728:in `authenticate'
1: from
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:736:in `auth_plain'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:975:in
`check_auth_response': 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more
at (Net::SMTPAuthenticationError)
> On Jun 22, 2020, at 6:43 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 7:13 PM Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> What credentials do I need for the mail application? Testing locally,
>> running in the infra/whimsy environment?
>
> See
> https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/MACOSX.md#configure-sending-of-mail
>
> Getting this to work will require you to get ~/.whimsy file to work.
> Previously you deleted/renamed that file so that you can make forward
> progress. Now that you have a working system, hopefully you can
> recreate that file and identify and address why it wasn't working for
> you.
>
> Longer answer: mail requires things called a Mail Transfer Agent
> (MTA). In the early days of the internet, wide open mail transfer
> agents were overrun by spammers. Now MTAs implement some sort of
> authentication.
>
> The MTA that services the ASF requires that email come from a
> whitelisted machine. Generally when we spin up a new VM for whimsy we
> have to ask the infra team to add the new VM to the whitelist. On
> rare occasions, this has broken and we need to ask the infra team to
> fix it. Taken together, I wrote a small test tool (mentioned in the
> link above) to verify that sending of mail is possible.
>
> When testing locally, you will need to conform to what your local mail
> server uses. In my case, I can use mail.twc.com as long as the email
> is going out through my ISP provided modem. Or, as mentioned in the
> link above, you can use gmail as the MTA as long as you have a valid
> gmail user and password. You may have access to other MTAs.
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
>> mail = Mail.new do
>> to "#{user.public_name}<#{user.mail.first}>"
>> # cc "[email protected]"
>> from "#{user.mail.first}"
>> subject "Conflict of Interest affirmation from #{user.public_name}"
>> body "This year's Conflict of Interest affirmation is attached."
>> end
>> mail.attachments["#{user.id}.txt"] = affirmed
>> mail.deliver!
>> end
>>
>> #<Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2) for "localhost" port
>> 25>
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:539:in
>> `initialize'
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:539:in `open'
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:539:in
>> `tcp_socket'
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:549:in `block in
>> do_start'
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/timeout.rb:95:in `block in
>> timeout'
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/timeout.rb:105:in `timeout'
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:548:in `do_start'
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.7.1_2/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb:518:in `start'
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/mail-2.7.1/lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb:109:in
>> `start_smtp_session'
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/mail-2.7.1/lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb:100:in
>> `deliver!'
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/mail-2.7.1/lib/mail/message.rb:276:in
>> `deliver!'
>> /srv/whimsy/www/officers/coi.cgi:177:in `block in emit_post'
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 22, 2020, at 3:29 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Another couple of questions:
>>>
>>> 1. What's the best way to --dryrun the commit until I have the rest of the
>>> application working? I know there are a couple of ways to do it, from
>>> putting --dryrun into some of the svn commands to using a keyboard entry to
>>> do it. Is it <ctrl> click on the keyboard?
>>>
>>> 2. What's the best model for implementing the mailto: user, cc:secretary?
>>> Is it as easy as require 'mail' and use a whimsy mail API?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>> On Jun 22, 2020, at 3:23 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 5:20 PM Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've pushed a work in progress to branch coi. It currently does what I
>>>>> want it to do for "get", which is to calculate who is required to affirm
>>>>> the coi.
>>>>>
>>>>> But when I submit the "post" it gives an error
>>>>> #<NameError: undefined local variable or method
>>>>> `coi_current_template_url'>
>>>>> /srv/whimsy/www/officers/coi.cgi:146:in `emit_post'
>>>>> /srv/whimsy/www/officers/coi.cgi:130:in `block (5 levels) in <main>'
>>>>> /srv/whimsy/www/officers/coi.cgi:128:in `block (4 levels) in <main>'
>>>>> /Users/clr/apache/git/whimsy/lib/whimsy/asf/themes.rb:43:in `block (2
>>>>> levels) in _whimsy_panel'
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a variable coi_current_template_url but it is out of scope.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there documentation/discussion of scoping rules for the whimsy cgi
>>>>> environment?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've attached the coi.cgi in case it's easier to see what's gone wrong...
>>>>
>>>> Scoping rules in Ruby are a bit complicated. If these values aren't
>>>> expected to be modified, the recommendation is to change the variable
>>>> names to be ALL_CAPS. If the values are expected to be modified,
>>>> prefix the variable name with a dollar sign ($).
>>>>
>>>>> Craig L Russell
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> - Sam Ruby
>>>
>>> Craig L Russell
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>
>> Craig L Russell
>> [email protected]
>>
Craig L Russell
[email protected]
