Email sending issue

[cespare]

Via email:

I try to install barkeep and followed your instructions from the wiki. We got it up and running, but are unable to send mails on commands and so on. Every time I try to send a email i get:

Net::SMTPAuthenticationError 535-5.7.1 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at /home/barkeep/.rbenv/versions/1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/smtp.rb:966:in `check_auth_response' /home/barkeep/.rbenv/versions/1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/smtp.rb:7

in http://our-host:8040/admin/diagnostics. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, added a user barkeep and this user is running the app, also I added ~/.barkeep_creds.rb

Fezzik.destination :my_company do
  Fezzik.env :gmail_address, "myUser@googlemail.com"
  Fezzik.env :gmail_password, "myPass"
  Fezzik.env :cookie_session_secret, "myCookie"
end

and this credetials are correct, but it doesn't work. I start it inside the barkeep repo with:

bundle exec foreman start

Unfortunally I didn't found anything in your wiki regarding setup this mailing stuff on a local installation. We want to use it for code reviews of our projects but this mailing stuff is important. Can you give me a hint what I'm doing wrong?

[philc]

We should help troubleshoot this, add more explanatory errors to the codebase, and add a doc on the wiki.

[mschaaf]

+1

[SirkoMann]

Hi,

we found out the problem is that ~/.barkeep_creds.rb will not be used. After putting the credentials in $BARKEEP_HOME/environment.rb it works without any problems.
Thanks,
Sirko

[philc]

@SirkoMann that is a workaround which will work, but you shouldn't need to go through that hassle. I suspect we need to improve the docs around keeping secret creds outside of the repo. Do you have BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS set as an env variable on the machine you're deploying from? Try this:

$ env | grep -i barkeep

Here's my output:

BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS=/Users/philc/.barkeep_creds.rb

[SirkoMann]

@philc for sure i exported the 'BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS' environment variable. Here is my output:
barkeep@blade:$ pwd
/home/barkeep
barkeep@blade:$ ls -ahl
total 64K
drwxr-xr-x 8 barkeep barkeep 4.0K Jul 20 17:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jul 18 10:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x 19 barkeep barkeep 4.0K Jul 20 16:48 barkeep
-rw-rw-r-- 1 barkeep barkeep 201 Jul 20 14:36 .barkeep_creds.rb
drwxrwxr-x 4 barkeep barkeep 4.0K Jul 18 12:18 barkeep_repos
-rw------- 1 barkeep barkeep 3.4K Jul 20 17:00 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 barkeep barkeep 220 Apr 3 17:58 .bash_logout
-rw-rw-r-- 1 barkeep barkeep 119 Jul 19 11:39 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 barkeep barkeep 3.5K Jul 19 11:37 .bashrc
drwx------ 2 barkeep barkeep 4.0K Jul 18 10:49 .cache
drwxrwxr-x 3 barkeep barkeep 4.0K Jul 18 10:45 .gem
-rw------- 1 barkeep barkeep 1.1K Jul 20 17:00 .mysql_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 barkeep barkeep 675 Apr 3 17:58 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 10 barkeep barkeep 4.0K Jul 18 10:37 .rbenv
drwx------ 2 barkeep barkeep 4.0K Jul 19 12:05 .ssh
-rw------- 1 barkeep barkeep 1.2K Jul 20 14:51 .viminfo
barkeep@blade:$ !echo
echo $BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS
/home/barkeep/.barkeep_creds.rb
barkeep@blade:$
As I mentioned before, it's working like a charme now. :D

[cespare]

@SirkoMann hmm, is that on the box you're running Barkeep on, or the one you deployed from?

BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS needs to be set on the box from which you're deploying.

[SirkoMann]

@cespare
I checked out the repo and I start barkeep inside the repo with: bundle exec foreman start
than we have access to it on http://blade.local.domain/8040

[philc]

@cespare it may be the case that we're not using BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS in development =)

[SirkoMann]

Hi,
now we have working email sending and it's great, but now we found that on commenting on a commit, all people are getting a notification mail. It would be really helpful if only the the person who made the commit and the person who commented get a notification mail. Is this already possible? Can't find anything regarding this in your documentation.

Thanks,
Sirko

[cespare]

@SirkoMann the emails should say why they're being sent. In this case, other people should get emails only if they have a saved search covering the commit with the "Email me new commits" box checked.

I'm closing out this ticket as the original issue has been fixed.

[anandvamsi]

Hi SirkoMann,

can u please guide how u configured the email system in barkeep esp the config file and location and all. which file i need to edit?

[SirkoMann]

@anandvamsi
sure.. :D
open the environment.rb

$EDITOR $BARKEEP_HOME/environment.rb
and in the file change

GMAIL_ADDRESS = "you@gmail.com
GMAIL_PASSWORD = "password"

that's it. Seems that the $BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS will not used.

barkeep@blade:~$ echo $BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS
/home/barkeep/.barkeep_creds.rb

[cespare]

environment.rb is used when you run barkeep locally. $BARKEEP_CREDENTIALS is the used when you deploy Barkeep to a production server.