SMTP server necessary for RPKI.net software

[sraustein]

Apparently, seems odd that someone doesn't ahve this, but...

it'd be nice to know that I need working exim/postfix/MTA on the CA host. Maybe just a docs update fixes this.

Trac ticket #824 component doc priority minor, owner None, created by morrowc on 2016-06-16T03:27:14Z, last modified 2016-07-18T12:15:01Z

[sraustein]

but why does ca need mail system?

Trac comment by randy on 2016-06-16T04:01:47Z

[sraustein]

but why does ca need mail system?

You wanted notification of impending upstream certificate expiration.

By the time you and Michael finished negotiating details of that
feature request, the GUI had evolved to the point where it could send
email (thereby conforming to Lett's Law, if not (yet) to Zawinksi's).

Trac comment by sra on 2016-06-16T04:15:08Z

[sraustein]

it seems to want to do something mail-wise on first page-load.

At Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:01:47 -0000,
Trac Ticket System wrote:

#824: SMTP server necessary for RPKI.net software
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Reporter: morrowc | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Component: doc
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
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Comment (by randy):

but why does ca need mail system?

Ticket URL: https://trac.rpki.net/ticket/824#comment:2
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Trac comment by morrowc on 2016-06-16T04:22:29Z

[sraustein]

sigh

Trac comment by randy on 2016-06-16T05:19:01Z

[sraustein]

Currently the admin gets emailed whenever an error occurs in the GUI. We can certainly disable that behavior. Django just defaults to doing that out of the box.

Trac comment by melkins on 2016-06-17T17:19:19Z

[sraustein]

i do not remember getting any crash email, and i did change rpki.conf
to have my email

Trac comment by randy on 2016-06-17T18:12:49Z

[sraustein]

Replying to [comment:7 randy]:

i do not remember getting any crash email, and i did change rpki.conf
to have my email

See #823 in which Rob complained about the email generated by scripts. It may be that you are not forwarding root's email to your own mailbox, so the mail is sitting in spool.

The only email setting I see in rpki.conf is pubd_contact_info, which is not used by the gui.

Trac comment by melkins on 2016-06-17T18:19:07Z

[sraustein]

so it is superuser's email addy? i set that too.

no mail for root in spool. it seems to be sending to the rpki user.
she has lotso mail. will set forward.

Trac comment by randy on 2016-06-17T18:22:31Z

[sraustein]

Replying to [comment:9 randy]:

so it is superuser's email addy? i set that too.

Yes, the webapp crashes will go to root. You may not have encounted an internal server error since you reinstalled, so might not have seen it.

no mail for root in spool. it seems to be sending to the rpki user.
she has lotso mail. will set forward.

This is probably the output from the cron jobs that Rob mentioned. It should no longer be happening due to the fix I committed in response to #823

Trac comment by melkins on 2016-06-17T18:26:01Z

[sraustein]

#823 should have handled the immediate problem, reopen if still an issue.

Trac comment by sra on 2016-07-18T12:15:01Z

[sraustein]

Closed with resolution fixed