SMTP: Catch and Display Errors

[Ricky Romero]

Takahe 0.9.0 running in Docker.

Takahe should display SMTP errors when they occur. While trying to figure out why my account creation email wasn't coming through, I changed my configuration to something I know will never, ever work:

TAKAHE_EMAIL_SERVER=smtp://testuser:[e-mail]:587/?tls=true

This configuration doesn't produce any log output that I can use to troubleshoot the issue, nor does it present any errors in the web UI.

Contrast this to nodemailer, which throws a timeout when using the same config:

node:internal/process/promises:279
            triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
            ^

Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 17.253.144.10:587
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1278:16) {
  errno: -60,
  code: 'ESOCKET',
  syscall: 'connect',
  address: '17.253.144.10',
  port: 587,
  command: 'CONN'
}

[Andrew Godwin]

Email isn't deliberately sent from the web threads, so you'd never see it there - the place it would surface is in runstator. I'm relatively sure that the errors would now surface in its logs after the refactor it got recently, but I do want to check before I close this as done!

[Ricky Romero]

Well, this hint may have gotten me unstuck at least. Looks like Stator might not have been running any jobs...

[Ricky Romero]

I found the problem – my installation wasn't running Stator, and that's where the errors get logged. I missed the part about Stator in the docs and expected to see the errors in the web logs. 🤷🏻 Up and running now though!

[Andrew Godwin]

Aha! Good to know!