DormSoup Daemon

Daemon is the component that is responsible for parsing the received emails into events and tags. It receives from an Athena mailscript that is located at /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/dormdigest/mail_scripts.

Send emails to dormdigest@scripts.mit.edu to test.

(You need the .env file containing API Key and database url from andiliu)

Testing locally

First, to authenticate into your email, you need to run

npm run relay

Then, to test how to parse an email into events, you can run

npm run testEmailToEventsPrompt

which would authenticate into your inbox, and you can search by email subject via a substring.

or to

npm run testEventToTagsPrompt # needs the ssh tunneling in the DormSoup/dormsoup repo because needs access to the database

to fetch an event and try to tag it.

Related Commands on Server

Do all these on the server

ssh DormSoup # see DormSoup/dormsoup repo for ssh config setup

Check if the DormSoup daemon is alive: systemctl status dormsoup.service

Check the daemon logs: journalctl -e -u dormsoup

Use the PostgreSQL command tool to view events:

psql

select title, date from "Event";
SELECT MAX("receivedAt") FROM "Email"; # check the latest email received, useful for debugging when daemon died