This is a toolkit for the handling of notification emails.
In most IT infrastructures there are several components that have the ability to send emails with status notifications to an administrator. There might be printers, hardware appliances, nagios instances etc, which all want to send emails to inform that a cartridge needs to be changed, that hardware components are malfunctioning or that other faults were detected.
These email notifications might not be usable because the available email server needs authentication which the sender can not provide. Also it might be desirable that some messages are sent to multiple recipients to make sure a notification reaches someone available. Additionally a dashboard with an overview of all emails can provide a good overview of the current and past situation.
The informant tries to solve these problems with its four components:
- The sink is a smtp server that excepts every message and dumps it to an sqlite database.
- The source is a mail client that sends messages based on regular expressions matching the messages added to the database.
- The list is a web application based on Flask that displays the messages in the database and allows for managing the sending of arriving emails
- The database is a shared component for the other three parts of the informant and a tool for database access and maintenance
- Flask
I recommend installing the informant inside a virtualenv. First install virtualenv
$ sudo pip install virtualenv
Then create a separate environment inside the informants folder...
$ mkdir informant
$ cd informant
$ virtualenv venc
New python executable in venv/bin/python
Installing distribute............done.
...and activate it.
$ . venv/bin/activate
Now you can install the recommended requirements (created with "pip freeze > requirements.txt"):
$ pip install -r requirements.txt