[Solved] Mailinglogger configuration options

1letter · February 12, 2019, 9:48am

Hi,

Where can i find more Informations about the Maillinglogger Options in the buildout.cfg?
This is what i have now configured:

# buildout.cfg
mailinglogger=
    <mailing-logger>
        level error
        flood-level 20
        smtp-server smtp.xxx.yz
        from webmaster@xxx.yz
        to me@xxx.yz
        subject xxx.yz [%(asctime)s] [%(hostname)s] %(line)s
    </mailing-logger>

I have looked in the Mailinglogger Docs , but the described Options are not the same. I need
the following Options to configure:

Port
Username
Password

Any hints?

djowett · February 12, 2019, 11:38am

If you are running postfix on localhost (using the Plone Ansible playbook) then the config above should 'just work' (TM) - it does for me at any rate.

I guess you are not, but if you consider doing that then it seems that you can set postfix relay to a mailserver elsewhere.

See https://github.com/plone/ansible-playbook/blob/d5bc4f394f4e9342afe67f5927169b66df091c1d/docs/mailserver.rst

1letter · February 12, 2019, 5:31pm

I thought the library send the mail directly to the smtp server, not via a local mta.

djowett · February 13, 2019, 8:05pm

Use the source Luke! This should show you the way:

github.com

Simplistix/mailinglogger/blob/3.8/mailinglogger/component.xml#L15


     attribute="values"

     name="+"

     required="yes"/>

</sectiontype>



<sectiontype name="base-mailer"

             implements="ZConfig.logger.handler" 

             extends="ZConfig.logger.base-log-handler">

  <key name="from" required="yes" attribute="fromaddr"/>

  <multikey name="to" required="yes" attribute="toaddrs"/>

  <key name="smtp-server" default="localhost" datatype="inet-address"/>

  <key name="username" required="no"/>

  <key name="password" required="no"/>

  <multikey name="ignore" required="no" datatype="mailinglogger.common.RegexConversion"/>

  <section name="*" attribute="headers" type="headers"/>

  <key name="template" required="no"/>

  <key name="charset" required="no" default="utf-8"/>

  <key name="content_type" required="no" default="text/plain"/>

</sectiontype>



<sectiontype name="mailing-logger"

1letter · February 15, 2019, 4:57pm

Thanks, i have seen this. And I used the option smtp-server like:

<mailing-logger>
    level error
    flood-level 20
    smtp-server smtp.xxx.yz:587
    from user1@xxx.yz
    to user2@xxx.yz
    username user1@xxx.yz
    password *secret*
    subject [dev-local] [%(asctime)s] [%(hostname)s] %(line)s
</mailing-logger>

But this did not help. I searched and i found in the mailinglogger the issue for me.

github.com

Simplistix/mailinglogger/blob/3.8/mailinglogger/MailingLogger.py#L115


        email[header]=value

    email['Subject']=self.getSubject(record)

    email['From']=self.fromaddr

    email['To']=', '.join(self.toaddrs)

    email['X-Mailer']=x_mailer

    email['X-Log-Level']=record.levelname

    email['Date']=formatdate()

    email['Message-ID']=make_msgid('MailingLogger')

    smtp = smtplib.SMTP(self.mailhost, self.mailport)

    if self.username and self.password:

        smtp.login(self.username,self.password)

    smtp.sendmail(self.fromaddr, self.toaddrs, email.as_string())

    smtp.quit()

except:

    self.handleError(record)

I added three lines of code and all was fine. But i don't know is this a Bug or a misconfig of our SMTP Server

if self.username and self.password:
    smtp.ehlo()     # new
    smtp.starttls() # new
    smtp.ehlo()     # new
    smtp.login(self.username,self.password)

djowett · February 15, 2019, 8:41pm

Well done!

As the author says in that mailinglogger issue you referred to:

Hmm, guess this is dead. I'm -0 is TLS support, not really sure a log handler should be connecting to anything other than a local MTA. Of course, if someone wants to rebase this, happy to re-open...

Maybe he's right, maybe not - but it woulda helped you