Email not being sent!

[eeeschwartz]

I hadn't been receiving the weekly digests so I dove into the email to see wat wuz up.

Upon signing up for a new topic I did not receive an email confirmation. The following suspicious message appeared in the logs, originating from sendgrid I reckon:

"535 Authentication failed: Bad username / password", "error_class"=>"Net::SMTPAuthenticationError"

Perhaps it has something to do with a recent sendgrid upgrade.

[bigfleet]

Since Code for America is in charge of the billing for this app (and hence, manager of the add ons) I will locate and extinguish this flame this afternoon.

[bigfleet]

I was able to fix this on my own. The app doesn't use Heroku's Sendgrid variables directly, so when they updated those values, email broke. I updated the config, and have received an email that the app sent. Service should be restored.

Also, I need to subscribe to something via email myself to make sure I can serve canary duty myself in the future.

[migurski]

For a useful canary, can I recommend adding a status endpoint for Engine Light?

Have it attempt to connect to the SMTP server to verify its existence.

[eeeschwartz]

@bigfleet thanks for sorting out the issue!

[bigfleet]

Can you refile that, Mike?

Cheers,

Jim

On May 21, 2015, at 1:13 PM, migurski notifications@github.com wrote:

For a useful canary, can I recommend adding a status endpoint for Engine Light?

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