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7 The Kallithea configuration file has several email related settings. When |
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8 these contain correct values, Kallithea will send email in the situations |
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9 described below. If the email configuration is not correct so that emails |
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10 cannot be sent, all mails will show up in the log output. |
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12 Before any email can be sent, an SMTP server has to be configured using the |
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13 configuration file setting ``smtp_server``. If required for that server, specify |
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14 a username (``smtp_username``) and password (``smtp_password``), a non-standard |
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15 port (``smtp_port``), encryption settings (``smtp_use_tls`` or ``smtp_use_ssl``) |
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16 and/or specific authentication parameters (``smtp_auth``). |
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19 Application emails |
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20 ------------------ |
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22 Kallithea sends an email to `users` on several occasions: |
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24 - when comments are given on one of their changesets |
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25 - when comments are given on changesets they are reviewer on or on which they |
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26 commented regardless |
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27 - when they are invited as reviewer in pull requests |
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28 - when they request a password reset |
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30 Kallithea sends an email to all `administrators` upon new account registration. |
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31 Administrators are users with the ``Admin`` flag set on the *Admin > Users* |
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32 page. |
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34 When Kallithea wants to send an email but due to an error cannot correctly |
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35 determine the intended recipients, the administrators and the addresses |
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36 specified in ``email_to`` in the configuration file are used as fallback. |
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38 Recipients will see these emails originating from the sender specified in the |
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39 ``app_email_from`` setting in the configuration file. This setting can either |
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40 contain only an email address, like `kallithea-noreply@example.com`, or both |
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41 a name and an address in the following format: `Kallithea |
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42 <kallithea-noreply@example.com>`. However, if the email is sent due to an |
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43 action of a particular user, for example when a comment is given or a pull |
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44 request created, the name of that user will be combined with the email address |
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46 configuration setting disregarded). |
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48 The subject of these emails can optionally be prefixed with the value of |
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52 Error emails |
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57 configuration file -- an email with exception details is sent by WebError_'s |
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64 a name and an address in the following format: `Kallithea Errors |
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68 standard SMTP port (25). If you have a remote SMTP server with a different port, |
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75 - `Error Middleware (Pylons documentation) <http://pylons-webframework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/debugging.html#error-middleware>`_ |
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76 - `ErrorHandler (Pylons modules documentation) <http://pylons-webframework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/modules/middleware.html#pylons.middleware.ErrorHandler>`_ |
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