580060 - Basket updates, Tues 7/20 @ anytime

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: WebOps: Other, task)

Description

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

I'll have some code ready to push on 7/20, including better SMTP connection handling, and enabling the Firefox Home reminder emails and LDAP checking.

**Not ready yet** just filing this as a heads up, I'll comment here when everything is ready.

Comment 1

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

i'm okay pushing this whenever.

Comment 2

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

Ok, I'm ready.

For stage,

1) in settings_local.py, remove the EMAIL_BACKEND line (if it exists)

For production

1) git pull

2) in settings_local.py, remove the EMAIL_BACKEND line (if it exists)

3) re-enable the reminder email and sync ldap cron jobs (we disabled these during launch)

4) add a new cron job 

./manage.py unsubscribe firefox-home-instructions --conditional=ageutils.subscription_older_than_ten_days

5) I added a nagios check to keep an eye on the email backlog, in case sending stops working for some reason.  In this case, it will print something like "ERROR:  email backlog is 123"  I believe you're already pointing nagios at this, it's at basket.mozilla.com/nagios/

Comment 3

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

Want to pick a time to do this today?  4pm?

Comment 4

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Cron now looks like this:

* * * * * apache cd /data/generic/www/django/basket.mozilla.com/basket; /usr/bin/python26 manage.py sendmail --template iphone-reg firefox-home-instructions > /dev/null
* * * * * apache cd /data/generic/www/django/basket.mozilla.com/basket; /usr/bin/python26 manage.py sendmail --template iphone-reminder firefox-home-instructions > /dev/null
* * * * * apache cd /data/generic/www/django/basket.mozilla.com/basket; /usr/bin/python26 manage.py unsubscribe firefox-home-instructions --conditional=ldaputils.subscription_has_account > /dev/null
* * * * * apache cd /data/generic/www/django/basket.mozilla.com/basket; /usr/bin/python26 manage.py unsubscribe firefox-home-instructions --conditional=ageutils.subscription_older_than_ten_days > /dev/null

Comment 5

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

There was an issue with lock file names, which I've fixed.  Emails are currently being delayed, so marking this blocker so someone picks it up soon.

1) git pull
2) kick apache
3) kill any running cron jobs
4) delete any lock files

thanks

Comment 6

[chizu]

Did each of those steps.