Introduced back in 2022 in
e3d495850d,
our new more specific message-id format for inbound and
outbound emails has now been in use for a very long time,
we can remove the support for the old formats:
`topic/:topic_id/:post_id.:random@:host`
`topic/:topic_id@:host`
`topic/:topic_id.:random@:host`
Currently the only way to allow tagging on pms is to use the `allow_staff_to_tag_pms` site setting. We are removing that site setting and replacing it with `pm_tags_allowed_for_groups` which will allow for non staff tagging. It will be group based permissions instead of requiring the user to be staff.
If the existing value of `allow_staff_to_tag_pms` is `true` then we include the `staff` groups as a default for `pm_tags_allowed_for_groups`.
It's very easy to forget to add `require 'rails_helper'` at the top of every core/plugin spec file, and omissions can cause some very confusing/sporadic errors.
By setting this flag in `.rspec`, we can remove the need for `require 'rails_helper'` entirely.
This overhauls the user interface for the group email settings management, aiming to make it a lot easier to test the settings entered and confirm they are correct before proceeding. We do this by forcing the user to test the settings before they can be saved to the database. It also includes some quality of life improvements around setting up IMAP and SMTP for our first supported provider, GMail. This PR does not remove the old group email config, that will come in a subsequent PR. This is related to https://meta.discourse.org/t/imap-support-for-group-inboxes/160588 so read that if you would like more backstory.
### UI
Both site settings of `enable_imap` and `enable_smtp` must be true to test this. You must enable SMTP first to enable IMAP.
You can prefill the SMTP settings with GMail configuration. To proceed with saving these settings you must test them, which is handled by the EmailSettingsValidator.
If there is an issue with the configuration or credentials a meaningful error message should be shown.
IMAP settings must also be validated when IMAP is enabled, before saving.
When saving IMAP, we fetch the mailboxes for that account and populate them. This mailbox must be selected and saved for IMAP to work (the feature acts as though it is disabled until the mailbox is selected and saved):
### Database & Backend
This adds several columns to the Groups table. The purpose of this change is to make it much more explicit that SMTP/IMAP is enabled for a group, rather than relying on settings not being null. Also included is an UPDATE query to backfill these columns. These columns are automatically filled when updating the group.
For GMail, we now filter the mailboxes returned. This is so users cannot use a mailbox like Sent or Trash for syncing, which would generally be disastrous.
There is a new group endpoint for testing email settings. This may be useful in the future for other places in our UI, at which point it can be extracted to a more generic endpoint or module to be included.
Adds functionality to reflect topic delete in Discourse to IMAP inbox (Gmail only for now) and reflecting Gmail deletes in Discourse.
Adding lots of tests, various refactors and code improvements.
When Discourse topic is destroyed in PostDestroyer mark the topic incoming email as imap_sync: true, and do the opposite when post is recovered.
* Fixed an issue I introduced in the last PR where I am just archiving everything regardless of whether it is actually archived in Discourse man_facepalming
* Refactor group list_mailboxes IMAP code to use providers, add specs, and add provider code to get the correct prodivder
Adds a imap_group_id column to IncomingEmail to deal with an issue where we were trying to update emails in the mailbox, calling IncomingEmail.where(imap_sync: true). However UID and UIDVALIDITY could be the same across accounts. So if group A used IMAP details for Gmail account A, and group B used IMAP details for Gmail account B, and both tried to sync changes to an email with UID of 3 (e.g. changing Labels), one account could affect the other. This even applied to Archiving!
Also in this PR:
* Fix error occurring if we do a uid_fetch and no emails are returned
* Allow for creating labels within the target mailbox (previously we would not do this, only use existing labels)
* Improve consistency for log messages
* Add specs for generic IMAP provider (Gmail specs still to come)
* Add custom archiving support for Gmail
* Only use Message-ID for uniqueness of IncomingEmail if it was generated by us
* Various refactors and improvements
Martin Brennan
Loïc Guitaut
David Taylor
Phil Pirozhkov
Isaac Janzen
Jarek Radosz
Martin Brennan