Mail/notifications

[thunders82]

Hi,
I don't know how to label this topic. I'm sorry in advance.

I couldn't find any documentation related to the notifications and emails. If there is any, could you redirect me to that one? If not, is it possible to explain how it works and how to set it up?

Thank you

[n-jay]

Hi @thunders82
It seems like there isn't much documentation on this as per issue #56 written a while back.
There also seems to be some new work being done to rework the whole process according to issue #218 which is more recent.

But in case this isn't resolved yet, I dug through the code and it seems like you can access the email setup per job by right-clicking on a job in the Monitor Jobs section in CueGUI.

This will open up the following dialog box for the artist details.

I'm not quite sure whether this works exactly as intended because it has been flagged for removal by the devs.

OpenCue/cuegui/cuegui/EmailDialog.py

Lines 32 to 33 in b203380

	# pwd is not available on Windows.
	# TODO(bcipriano) Remove this, not needed once user info can come directly from Cuebot.

Hope this helps!

[thunders82]

Hi @n-jay,

Thank you for your reply. Do you know where to setup the mail server?
I noticed we can set "smtp_host" in Cuebot settings but, how to set the port, the encryption, SASL settings, etc?

Thank you

[n-jay]

Not quite sure about that @thunders82,
while the library used for handling email (smtplib) supports it, based on the OpenCue code, it seems that some of the parameters (such as port) haven't been exposed to be set from an external configuration.

What I could find in the CueGUI configuration file related to email was the following:

OpenCue/cuegui/cuegui/config/cuegui.yaml

Lines 100 to 103 in b203380

	email.subject_prefix: 'cuemail: please check '
	email.body_prefix: 'Your PSTs request that you check '
	email.body_suffix: "\n\n"
	email.domain: ''

Unsure if there's an alternative way to achieve this though.

Will need some confirmation from the main devs on this.
Looping in @bcipriano

[thunders82]

Thank you @n-jay. I hope @bcipriano will be able to help.

[bcipriano]

AFAIK the email functionality remains mostly untouched from the pre-OSS days at Imageworks. There may even be some bits that are still hardcoded with Imageworks-specific values.

I believe both CueGUI and Cuebot have email functionality, but at some point someone will need to walk through that code and/or do some testing to find out what work needs to be done.

It might be as simple as exposing a few config flags and writing a doc on SMTP configuration. There may be some additional work needed as well.