This commit mostly makes our tests less
noisy, since emails are no longer an important
detail of sending messages (they're not even
really used in the API).
It also sets us up to have more scrutiny
on delivery_email/email in the future
for things that actually matter. (This is
a prep commit for something along those
lines, kind of hard to explain the full
plan.)
When soft deactivation is run for in "auto" mode (no emails are
specified and all users inactive for specified number of days are
deactivated), catch-up is also run in the "auto" mode if
AUTO_CATCH_UP_SOFT_DEACTIVATED_USERS is True.
Automatically catching up soft-deactivated users periodically would
ensure a good user experience for returning users, but on some servers
we may want to turn off this option to save on some disk space.
Fixes#8858, at least for the default configuration, by eliminating
the situation where there are a very large number of messages to recover.
In this we basically seed a single message for the user which will
be soft deactivated by sending a stream message / group PM to
ensure that is has at least one UserMessage row, since in real
world every human user will always have at least one User Message
row.
This commits adds new helper functions which are:
* get_users_for_soft_deactivation(): This function can be used to
fetch a list of human users which pass the criteria of minimum
inactivity period (in days) passed as a parameter to the function.
* do_soft_activate_users(): Given a list of users this function
reactivates them and help them catch up with the missing message
rows for them in the UserMessage table.
Steve Howell
Puneeth Chaganti
Anders Kaseorg
Shubham Dhama
rht
Aditya Bansal