[ckan-dev] Trouble setting up email notifications

Wed Mar 12 21:39:49 UTC 2014

Good catch on the "success".  It's still not working though.  Just to make sure it wasn't a lack of data I "followed" an organization and added a dataset through that organizations user.  I also have the box checked for "Subscribe to notification emails" in the admin account.   This created a red alert when I logged back in as admin and I can see the update in the News Feed. However, when i run the curl request I get these errors/messages in the log and no emails:

ckan_default.error.log:
    [Wed Mar 12 15:02:28 2014] [error] 2014-03-12 15:02:28,767 INFO [ckan.lib.base] /api/action/send_email_notifications render time 0.629 seconds

ckan_default.custom.log:
    127.0.0.1 - - [12/Mar/2014:15:02:28 -0600] "POST /api/action/send_email_notifications HTTP/1.0" 200 676 "-" "curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3"

I am able to ping the mail server (exchange.drcog.org) from the server.

These are my email and activity stream settings in the .ini:

ckan.activity_streams_enabled = true
#ckan.activity_list_limit = 31
ckan.activity_streams_email_notifications = true
ckan.email_notifications_since = 2 days

email_to = support at drcog.org
error_email_from = support at drcog.org
smtp.server = exchange.drcog.org
smtp.starttls = True
smtp.user = support at drcog.org
smtp.password = <my-password>
smtp.mail_from = support at drcog.org

Thanks,

Justin

From: ckan-dev [mailto:ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Stéphane Guidoin
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:02 PM
To: CKAN Development Discussions
Cc: Jeff Socia
Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] Trouble setting up email notifications

You're reading too fast: you're not getting an error... you're getting a success:  ... "success": true, ...

:)

Look at your server logs to see if there is an error or a success message... or nothing. If you have nothing in your logs, it means you have no notification that needs to be sent.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Justin Lewis <jlewis at drcog.org<mailto:jlewis at drcog.org>> wrote:
Ohh yes... I forgot to mention that I configured the .ini file.

I added the empty dictionary param and now I'm simply getting an authorization error:

curl http://localhost/api/action/send_email_notifications  -H "X-CKAN-API-Key:<my-api-key>" -d '{}'
{"help": "Send any pending activity stream notification emails to users.\n\n    You must provide a sysadmin's API key in the Authorization header of the\n    request, or call this action from the command-line via a `paster post ...`\n    command.\n\n    ", "success": true, "result": null}

The api key was taken from the admin account page.

I think I remember reading somewhere in the docs about needing to enable authorization on the server... Could this be an issue?

Thanks for your help!

Justin

From: ckan-dev [mailto:ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org<mailto:ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org>] On Behalf Of Stéphane Guidoin
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:31 PM
To: CKAN Development Discussions
Cc: Jeff Socia
Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] Trouble setting up email notifications

Hey Justin,

When posting a request to the email trigger via the API, you have to post an empty dictionnary.

So with curl the command should look like that:
curl http://my.domain/api/action/send_email_notifications  -H "X-CKAN-API-Key:ae475a5a-6a9f-4800-9e2d-x338847r" -d '{}'

Also: did you configure all the SMTP stuff in the .ini?

Even though it does not look interesting, please post any error you see, either in curl or in your web server error log.

Steph

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Justin Lewis <jlewis at drcog.org<mailto:jlewis at drcog.org>> wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to get e-mail notifications setup for a local CKAN instance and having some trouble.

While trying to run the '/api/action/send_email_notifications' request through the terminal I get errors like this "Bad request - JSON Error: No request body data".  I have tried:

1.       sending as simple http request through a browser

2.       sending as a curl request - 'curl http://geodataportaldev/api/action/send_email_notifications -H "Authorization:my-api-key"'

3.       sending as a paster request as outlined in the docs  -  echo '{}' | /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/paster --plugin=ckan post -c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini /api/action/send_email_notifications

a.       ensuring that the paths are correct to production.ini in the paster request

4.       adding authorization (api_key) to all variations of the request

5.       ensured email notifications where enabled and sending to a valid email

6.       ensured there where recent changes to data that would trigger an email

I'm unsure where to go from here.  If anyone has a working example of a request this could be helpful to make sure that I am getting the syntax correct.  Otherwise I am seeing little useful info in regards to log errors.

Thank You,

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