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setup: move test dependencies to dev_requirements.txt to make them optional Remove the need for having test tools on production systems. Installing test dependencies is made an extra explicit step. pip is the future, but doesn't have the same tests_require features as setuptools kind of has. I don't like this way of handling it without setup.py support and with explicit naming of the ugly dev_requirements.txt ... but that seems to be the way to do it.
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3 ==============
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4 Email settings
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5 ==============
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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``), whether to use "SSL" when connecting (``smtp_use_ssl``)
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16 or use STARTTLS (``smtp_use_tls``), and/or specify special ESMTP "auth" features
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17 (``smtp_auth``).
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19 For example, for sending through gmail, use::
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21 smtp_server = smtp.gmail.com
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22 smtp_username = username
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23 smtp_password = password
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24 smtp_port = 465
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25 smtp_use_ssl = true
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28 Application emails
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29 ------------------
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31 Kallithea sends an email to `users` on several occasions:
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33 - when comments are given on one of their changesets
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34 - when comments are given on changesets they are reviewer on or on which they
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35 commented regardless
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36 - when they are invited as reviewer in pull requests
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37 - when they request a password reset
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39 Kallithea sends an email to all `administrators` upon new account registration.
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40 Administrators are users with the ``Admin`` flag set on the *Admin > Users*
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41 page.
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43 When Kallithea wants to send an email but due to an error cannot correctly
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44 determine the intended recipients, the administrators and the addresses
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45 specified in ``email_to`` in the configuration file are used as fallback.
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47 Recipients will see these emails originating from the sender specified in the
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48 ``app_email_from`` setting in the configuration file. This setting can either
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52 action of a particular user, for example when a comment is given or a pull
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55 configuration setting disregarded).
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57 The subject of these emails can optionally be prefixed with the value of
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58 ``email_prefix`` in the configuration file.
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62 ------------
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64 When an exception occurs in Kallithea -- and unless interactive debugging is
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66 configuration file -- an email with exception details is sent by WebError_'s
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73 a name and an address in the following format: `Kallithea Errors
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74 <kallithea-noreply@example.com>`.
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76 *Note:* The WebError_ package does not respect ``smtp_port`` and assumes the
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88 .. _WebError: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WebError