Check for invalid mails upon job deployment

[antoniivanov]

What is the feature request? What problem does it solve?

As employees leave the organization/company or users change mails , eventually the notification list configured for the job would start containing a lot of invalid mails. This causes issues with SMTP relay (e.g postfix) which could be buffering all invalid requests until the queu is full, which cause all mails coming for all jobs to be blocked.

To reduce the chance of such scenario happening and to keep configuration clean and correct, it might be good idea to provide (optional) validation when a user tries to deployed a data job

Suggested solution
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We can add a new option (NOTIFICATION_MAIL_VERIFY = True/False).

If it's configured issue http://www.smtp-server.com/simple_mail_verifying.htm to verify the mail .
We can also use something like this https://github.com/vmware/versatile-data-kit/blob/main/projects/vdk-core/src/vdk/internal/builtin_plugins/notification/notification_base.py#L113
But there's concern that this might cause issues (since it's RCPT request which may be queued similarly by mail relay).

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[Abdullium]

Assign it me I, will add the new feature

[antoniivanov]

I assigned the issue to you, Abdullium

Thanks and looking forward to your changes.

[Abdullium]

I assigned the issue to you, Abdullium

Thanks and looking forward to your changes.

Sorry I think this requires software engineering skills,
do you know any projects which require data analysis

[antoniivanov]

I assigned the issue to you, Abdullium
Thanks and looking forward to your changes.

Sorry I think this requires software engineering skills, do you know any projects which require data analysis

We have multiple examples - https://github.com/vmware/versatile-data-kit/tree/main/examples
We'd like to extend them and add new ones. Would that type of work be interesting for you?

They require CLI knowledge, some python (at least Python and quickstart-vdk needs to be installed locally) and SQL.
You can try out one of the examples for yourself and see.

Is that something you are comfortable with? What kind of data analysis do you usually do?

[Abdullium]

I assigned the issue to you, Abdullium
Thanks and looking forward to your changes.

Sorry I think this requires software engineering skills, do you know any projects which require data analysis

We have multiple examples - https://github.com/vmware/versatile-data-kit/tree/main/examples We'd like to extend them and add new ones. Would that type of work be interesting for you?

They require CLI knowledge, some python (at least Python and quickstart-vdk needs to be installed locally) and SQL. You can try out one of the examples for yourself and see.

Is that something you are comfortable with? What kind of data analysis do you usually do?

I can do exploratory data analysis checkout my profile

Thank you i wil he k it out

[antoniivanov]

Hi @Abdullium,

Have you been able to work on this? If you need help with anything do not hesitate to write here or in the slack channel. Or just write an email.

[akorkos]

Hi @tozka ,

If the issue is still open I would like to work on it.

[antoniivanov]

Hi @akorkos

Yes, it's still open. Please feel free to assign it to yourself and work on it.

Join our slack channel as well so it is easier to ask questions - https://github.com/vmware/versatile-data-kit#contacts

[sabadzhiev]

Triaged. We will keep it, as being a First good issue .