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diff docs/usage/email.rst @ 5412:2079e864ce51
spelling: use "email" consistently
The common English spelling is "email", not "e-mail" (and was indeed
also the most common, but not only, variant in the Kallithea UI).
http://grammarist.com/style/e-mail-email/
author | Søren Løvborg <sorenl@unity3d.com> |
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date | Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:07:49 +0200 |
parents | docs/usage/e-mail.rst@ce72c36f7a0e |
children | 22a3fa3c4254 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/docs/usage/email.rst Fri Aug 14 17:07:49 2015 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.. _email: + +============== +Email settings +============== + +The Kallithea configuration file has several email related settings. When +these contain correct values, Kallithea will send email in the situations +described below. If the email configuration is not correct so that emails +cannot be sent, all mails will show up in the log output. + +Before any email can be sent, an SMTP server has to be configured using the +configuration file setting ``smtp_server``. If required for that server, specify +a username (``smtp_username``) and password (``smtp_password``), a non-standard +port (``smtp_port``), encryption settings (``smtp_use_tls`` or ``smtp_use_ssl``) +and/or specific authentication parameters (``smtp_auth``). + +Application emails +------------------ + +Kallithea sends an email to `users` on several occasions: + +- when comments are given on one of their changesets +- when comments are given on changesets they are reviewer on or on which they + commented regardless +- when they are invited as reviewer in pull requests +- when they request a password reset + +Kallithea sends an email to all `administrators` upon new account registration. +Administrators are users with the ``Admin`` flag set in the ``Admin->Users`` +section. + +When Kallithea wants to send an email but due to an error cannot correctly +determine the intended recipients, the administrators and the addresses +specified in ``email_to`` in the configuration file are used as fallback. + +Recipients will see these emails originating from the sender specified in the +``app_email_from`` setting in the configuration file. This setting can either +contain only an email address, like `kallithea-noreply@example.com`, or both +a name and an address in the following format: `Kallithea +<kallithea-noreply@example.com>`. The subject of these emails can +optionally be prefixed with the value of ``email_prefix`` in the configuration +file. + +Error emails +------------ + +When an exception occurs in Kallithea -- and unless interactive debugging is +enabled using ``set debug = true`` in the ``[app:main]`` section of the +configuration file -- an email with exception details is sent by WebError_'s +``ErrorMiddleware`` to the addresses specified in ``email_to`` in the +configuration file. + +Recipients will see these emails originating from the sender specified in the +``error_email_from`` setting in the configuration file. This setting can either +contain only an email address, like `kallithea-noreply@example.com`, or both +a name and an address in the following format: `Kallithea Errors +<kallithea-noreply@example.com>`. + +*Note:* The WebError_ package does not respect ``smtp_port`` and assumes the +standard SMTP port (25). If you have a remote SMTP server with a different port, +you could set up a local forwarding SMTP server on port 25. + +References +---------- +- `Error Middleware (Pylons documentation) <http://pylons-webframework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/debugging.html#error-middleware>`_ +- `ErrorHandler (Pylons modules documentation) <http://pylons-webframework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/modules/middleware.html#pylons.middleware.ErrorHandler>`_ + +.. _WebError: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WebError