This is the behaviour inherited from Django[^1]. While setting the
password to empty (`email_password = `) in
`/etc/zulip/zulip-secrets.conf` also would suffice, it's unclear what
the user would have been putting into `EMAIL_HOST_USER` in that
context.
Because we previously did not warn when `email_password` was not
present in `zulip-secrets.conf`, having the error message clarify the
correct configuration for disabling SMTP auth is important.
Fixes: #23938.
[^1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/settings/#std-setting-EMAIL_HOST_USER
Fixes#20132.
EMAIL_HOST_USER without EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD is not going to be a valid
configuration, and may result from making mistake in correctly setting
it in the secrets file and end up being a non-obvious cause of failure
to send email. Logging an error will be useful for detecting it. Further
conditions can be added to the function in the future.
These fundamentally tested send_email, not build_email, and thus
belong in TestSendEmail, not TestBuildEmail. They also duplicated the
code in test_send_email_exceptions; reuse it.
Django's default SMTP implementation can raise various exceptions
when trying to send an email. In order to allow Zulip calling code
to catch fewer exceptions to handle any cause of "email not
sent", we translate most of them into EmailNotDeliveredException.
The non-translated exceptions concern the connection with the
SMTP server. They were not merged with the rest to keep some
details about the nature of these.
Tests are implemented in the test_send_email.py module.
Previously the outgoing emails were sent over several SMTP
connections through the EmailSendingWorker; establishing a new
connection each time adds notable overhead.
Redefine EmailSendingWorker worker to be a LoopQueueProcessingWorker,
which allows it to handle batches of events. At the same time, persist
the connection across email sending, if possible.
The connection is initialized in the constructor of the worker
in order to keep the same connection throughout the whole process.
The concrete implementation of the consume_batch function is simply
processing each email one at a time until they have all been sent.
In order to reuse the previously implemented decorator to retry
sending failures a new method that meets the decorator's required
arguments is declared inside the EmailSendingWorker class. This
allows to retry the sending process of a particular email inside
the batch if the caught exception leaves this process retriable.
A second retry mechanism is used inside the initialize_connection
function to redo the opening of the connection until it works or
until three attempts failed. For this purpose the backoff module
has been added to the dependencies and a test has been added to
ensure that this retry mechanism works well.
The connection is closed when the stop method is called.
Fixes: #17672.
Amazon SES has a limit on the size of address fields, and rejects
emails with too-long "From" combinations of name and address. This
limit is set to 320 bytes and comes from an RFC limitation on the
size of addresses. This RFC standard states that an email address
should not be composed of a local part (before the '@') longer than
64 bytes and a domain part (after the '@') longer than 255 bytes.
It is possible that Amazon SES misinterprets this limitation as it
checks the length of the combination of the name and the email
address of the sender.
To ensure that this problem is not encountered in the send_email
module of Zulip the length of this combination is now checked
against this limit and the from_name field is removed to only
keep the from_address field when it is necessary in order to
stay below 320 bytes.
If the from_address field alone is longer than 320 bytes the
sending process will raise an SMTPDataError exception.
Tests for this new check are added to the backend test suite in
order to test if build_email correctly outputs an email with filled
from_name and from_address fields when the total length is lower
than 320 bytes and that it correctly throws the from_name field
away when necessary.
Fixes: #17558.
Alex Vandiver
Anders Kaseorg
Zixuan James Li
Mateusz Mandera
akshatdalton
Abhijeet Prasad Bodas
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