Account creation and password reset emails not sending

[KlaasH]

When I submit the password reset form (https://bna.peopleforbikes.org/#/password-reset-request/), it says "Password reset successfully requested", but that's not so. The request is actually coming back with a 500 error, and this shows up in Papertrail:

This seems likely to be fallout from the Django upgrade, though it could also be just a change in the package itself. In any case, we need to figure out how to properly import it.

We also need to fix the front-end so that it shows an error when there's an error, rather than declaring success regardless.

Workaround I don't think there's a quick/easy way to get the emails to send--even if the fix is a one-line change to settings, as seems likely, it will require a redeploy to make it take effect. But it's possible to generate a password reset link manually.

• Get a Django shell in the app, i.e.:
  • Load the production SSH key
  • ssh -A ec2-user@bastion.bna.peopleforbikes.org
  • Figure out the internal IP of an instance that's running an app task (look in the AWS console), and SSH to that
  • Run docker ps and get the container ID of an app task (the image will include pfb-app and the command starts with /usr/local/bin/gunicorn)
  • Run docker exec -ti CONTAINER_ID bash to get a shell in that container
  • Run ./manage.py shell_plus to get a Django shell

• Run this (replacing the EMAIL_ADDRESS... bit with the desired email address):

  from django.conf import settings
  from django.core.signing import TimestampSigner
  from users.models import PFBUser
  
  user = PFBUser.objects.get(email="EMAIL_ADDRESS_OF_USER_TO_RESET")
  signer = TimestampSigner(salt=settings.RESET_SALT)
  token = signer.sign('{}'.format(user.uuid))
  print('https://bna.peopleforbikes.org/#/password-reset/?token={}'.format(token))

• Copy the resulting URL. It should work to reset that accounts password. It will expire after 24 hours.