Setup email notifications for continuous monitoring

[jordanpadams]

💡 Description

• Configure JPL SMTP
• Send to pdssa@jpl.nasa.gov, pdsen-dev@jpl.nasa.gov, pdsen-ops@jpl.nasa.gov

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[nutjob4life]

"Service" or "application" account request made; currently tracked in JPL JRA ICAM-18665

[nutjob4life]

The application account pdsen-orbit@jpl.nasa.gov has been created. The password needs to be set by a member of pdsen-ops by visiting dir/ai with a browser

The username and password should be then tested with JPL SMTP, such as with the Python SMTP client, as sometimes application accounts need further "poking/prodding" to get them to work with JPL SMTP.

Once confirmed, the secrets in https://github.com/NASA-PDS/PlanetPatrol/settings/secrets/actions will need to be updated as follows:

• NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SMTP_USERNAME = pdsen-orbit@jpl.nasa.gov
• NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SMTP_PASSWORD = the password set by a member of pdsen-ops

[jordanpadams]

@nutjob4life secrets updated... sorry I missed the testing part :-/

[nutjob4life]

@jordanpadams I got you fam, testing now

Okay, test doesn't work. The application account apparently lacks smtp permissions. I've filed INC0590116 to request that smtp access be given

(You'd think that'd be automatic given that the description of the account that they literally put in is: "Used for the Engineering Node of the PDS in order to authenticate with SMTP and other JPL resources" 🙄)

[nutjob4life]

Update: made argument with Kevin Reelfs (JPL Postmaster) on reasons to enable SMTP access for the account on 2024-07-17 … no response yet

[nutjob4life]

Update: Kevin Reelfs reached out to the appropriate department and enabled SMTP access for our "application" account.

Tested with the following script:

import smtplib

user = 'REDACTED@jpl.nasa.gov'
pwd = 'EVEN-MORE-REDACTED'

with smtplib.SMTP(host='ALSO-REDACTED-BUT-EASILY-GUESSED.jpl.nasa.gov', port=587) as s:
    s.starttls()
    s.login(user, pwd)

Now that they work I also updated the secrets in PlanetPatrol.