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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``), 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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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>`. The subject of these emails can
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43 optionally be prefixed with the value of ``email_prefix`` in the configuration
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48 ------------
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50 When an exception occurs in Kallithea -- and unless interactive debugging is
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60 <kallithea-noreply@example.com>`.
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62 *Note:* The WebError_ package does not respect ``smtp_port`` and assumes the
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74 .. _WebError: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WebError