On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 22:45 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Did you have a chance to look at this list? If you don't have time, let me know. Thanks!

Hi Rahul,

I've been in touch with Ralph off list (I didn't want to clutter the ML with my noob queries). I've just pushed a commit that should enable the cron job for reminders on staging. Can you please enable these from the django admin interface for staging[1] so we could check if it works? Could you also check the commit once, just to be sure I did it right (commit: 004cddd)?

Looks like my push created a new "testing" remote branch. I'm not sure where I got it from. Many apologies for this folks. It made zodbot go nuts trying to announce all the 14000+ commits. I reported this on #fedora-admin and relrod said he'd take care of it.

Luckily it isn't something irreparable. So much for an uneventful first commit :/

[1] https://ask.stg.fedoraproject.org/settings/EMAIL/

Hi folks,

On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 13:38 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Thanks. You can drop a mail to upstream of django post office and let him know. I *think* it stores the email in the db by default based on the template but might be useful to confirm this.

Rahul

The package got approved and I've just finished pushing updates to bodhi. Yep, it does seem to make use of the db to store mails.

The "installation" and "quick start" sections[1] detail how it's to be used:

Installation

.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/ui/django-post_office.png?branch=master

• Install from PyPI (or you can `manually download it from PyPI http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-post_office`_)::

  pip install django-post_office

So, install the rpm, in our case

• Add ``post_office`` to your INSTALLED_APPS in django's ``settings.py``:

.. code-block:: python

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # other apps
    "post_office",
)

• Run ``syncdb``::

  python manage.py syncdb

• Set ``post_office.EmailBackend`` as your ``EMAIL_BACKEND`` in django's ``settings.py``::

  EMAIL_BACKEND = 'post_office.EmailBackend'

Quickstart

To get started, make sure you have Django's admin interface enabled. Create an ``EmailTemplate`` instance via ``/admin`` and you can start sending emails.

.. code-block:: python

from post_office import mail

mail.send(
    ['recipient1@example.com', 'recipient2@example.com'],
    'from@example.com',
    template='welcome_email', # Could be an EmailTemplate instance or name
    context={'foo': 'bar'},
)

The above command will put your email on the queue so you can use the command in your webapp without slowing down the request/response cycle too much. To actually send them out, run ``python manage.py send_queued_mail``. You can schedule this management command to run regularly via cron::

* * * * * (/usr/bin/python manage.py send_queued_mail >> send_mail.log 2>&1)

I can set up the cron job at the end, like I did earlier for askbot. I'm not sure how to do the other steps on the server (is root access required?). Could you folks tell me how to go about it, (or do it, if you have the cycles yourself ;) )

I'll go drop upstream a mail in the time being.

On a related note, has anyone received any "accept answer reminders"? I was wondering how we'd test that.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-post_office