591528 - Need e-mail account for test automation tool

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: Servicedesk, task)

Description

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

I'm working on a test automation tool for Firefox Sync called Crossweave (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/CrossWeave).  I want to add automatic e-mail notification to this tool upon test failure.  Can I get an e-mail account to use just for this purpose, similar to the account tryserver uses to send e-mail notifications to users?

Comment 1

[Sean Alamares]

What would you like this email address to be, and who should be receiving the messages that come to it?

Comment 2

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Can the e-mail address be [e-mail]/.org?  And you can forward whatever mail it receives to my address: [e-mail]

Comment 3

[Sean Alamares]

Are you the only one who'll ever be reading these? If so, I can just make an alias to your account.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

This account will be used for automatic e-mail notifications of test failures, and isn't really intended to be used for replies at all.  Any replies will likely be ignored by whoever sees them.

As far as an alias to my account, that would be OK, as long as it has a separate password, and that password doesn't expire every 3 months like a regular account.

Comment 5

[Sean Alamares]

An alias is just another name for your current account, so it wouldn't be separate at all. Everything written to [e-mail] would go straight into your inbox.

Comment 6

[Sean Alamares]

I went ahead and just made an email list ([e-mail]) out of this just in case these messages ever needed to go to other people someday. Currently you are the only member of this list though.

Comment 7

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

So how can I use this to send e-mail?  The goal is have an account I can use to send these test failure notifications, that isn't my personal e-mail account, so that I don't need to have my personal e-mail credentials on the test machines where this tool is running.

Comment 8

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Is this tool running within the Mozilla network somewhere? If so, you don't need any type of user/pass to send mail. Use the correct SMTP server depending on your location and/or masquerade correctly, and then you can send mail yourself just fine without your creds.

Comment 9

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Yes, this tool is running inside the MV Office VPN.  What SMTP server can I use, credentialessly?

Comment 10

[Sean Alamares]

Okay, misunderstood this request. I've sent you credentials for an account called [e-mail] which you can use for this.

Comment 11

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Thanks for the account.  I can successfully receive e-mail sent to this account from another address, but I cannot send any e-mail *from* this address:  I get an authentication error.

Is there some server other than smtp.mozilla.org, port 465, that I should be using to send mail with it?

Comment 12

[Sean Alamares]

Try sending from mail.mozilla.com

Comment 13

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

mail.mozilla.com works, thanks!