Feedback about Opalstack support and request to help setting emails

dragonxi

(0) Summary

(a) + opalstack support rocked, thanks guys !

(b) + opalstack platform performed OK

(c) * email settings started to introduce challenges, help us !
with over 200 mail users
and over 200 mail addresses
i.e. once the number of object reaches certain limit
it becomes almost impossible to use GUI
if the server does not sort objects

(d) the same is true will all objects
and filtering objects such as domains starting with www.
would also help picking the right one

(e) search feature is very good for all objects, well done guys !

actually it is so good that it could be used to pick an object
instead of having the server produce a long unsorted list for user
to try to find the right one!

(1) adding New Email Address

ref: >> https://my.opalstack.com/mail/new/

Challenge:

difficult to pick the right Mail User among over 200 unsorted ones

Our proposals
(a) SORT IT ! i.e. change the server software to list Mail Users sorted alphabetically
(b) allow manual setting first and then let the server check it
(c) send us Python example how to add a Mail User and a Emaill Address

(2) Searching Email Address

ref: >> https://my.opalstack.com/mail/ <-- Search Email Address

Challenge:

the server lists also the Forwards ones
with most email addresses being forwarded the list gets long
(to minimize the risk loosing emails)

Our proposals
(a) SORT IT ! i.e. change the server software to list Mail Addresses alphabetically
(b) send us Python example how to list only the primary email address
i.e. not the ones used to forward

(3) Configuring emails using Thunderbird client

Challenge:
(a) mail.us.opalstack.com <-- avg 8-12 sec response OK / sometimes no response at all which is not OK !
(b) mail.de.opalstack.com <-- avg 8-12 sec response OK / sometimes no response at all which is not OK !

Our proposal
(a) send us Python example how to add a Mail User and a Email Address

(b) .app example with mail.us.opalstack.com

easy to modidy .dev/_dev or mail.de.opalstack.com

dummyguy@dummydomain.app with Thunderbird New Email Settings

DUMMYUSER@dummydomain.app <-- Your name
dummyguy@dummydomain.app <-- Email address
dummypassword <-- Password

                Incoming                         / Outgoing

Protocol <-- POP3 / SMTP
Server <-- mail.us.opalstack.com / smtp.us.opalstack.com
Port <-- 995 / 465
SSL <-- SSL/TLS / SSL/TLS
Authentication <-- Normal password / Normal password
Username <-- dummyguy2box4dummydomain_app / dummyguy2box4dummydomain_app
Re-test <-- Done

Looking forward to collaborate with Opalstack,
stay covid-19 safe guys!

sean

dragonxi send us Python example how to add a Mail User and a Emaill Address

import requests

# create an API token at https://my.opalstack.com/tokens
# then use that token value in the next line
OPAL_TOKEN = 'XXXXXXXX'

# specify your mail server, mail username, and email address
MAIL_SERVER = 'imap1.us.opalstack.com'
MAIL_USER = 'new_mail_username'
EMAIL_ADDR = 'you@domain.com'

# no need to edit below this line
OPAL_HEADERS = {
    'Authorization': f'Token {OPAL_TOKEN}',
    'Content-Type':'application/json'
}


# first get the UUID of the mail server:
servers = requests.get('https://my.opalstack.com/api/v0/servers/list/', 
        headers=OPAL_HEADERS).json()
mail_server_uuid = [s['id'] for s in servers['imap_servers'] if 
        s['hostname']==MAIL_SERVER][0]


# next create the mail user
mailuser_data = [{
        'name': MAIL_USER,
        'imap_server': mail_server_uuid,
        'procmailrc': '',
        'autoresponder_enable': False,
        'autoresponder_message': ''
        }]

mailuser = requests.post('https://my.opalstack.com/api/v0/mailuser/add/',
        headers=OPAL_HEADERS,
        json=mailuser_data).json()


# finally, create the email address

email_data = {
        'source': EMAIL_ADDR,
        'destinations': [mailuser.[0]['id'],],
        'forwards': []
        }

email_addr = requests.post('https://my.opalstack.com/api/v0/mail/add/',
        headers=OPAL_HEADERS,
        json=email_data).json()

dragonxi send us Python example how to list only the primary email address, i.e. not the ones used to forward

import requests
from operator import itemgetter

# replace XXXXXXX with your token
OPAL_TOKEN = 'XXXXXXXX'

# no need to edit below this line
OPAL_HEADERS = {
    'Authorization': f'Token {OPAL_TOKEN}',
    'Content-Type':'application/json'
}

emails = requests.get('https://my.opalstack.com/api/v0/mail/list/',
        headers=OPAL_HEADERS).json()

primaries = []
for email in emails['mails']:
    e = requests.get(f'https://my.opalstack.com/api/v0/mail/read/{email["id"]}',
            headers=OPAL_HEADERS).json()
    if len(e['forwards']) == 0:
        primaries.append(e)
sorted_primaries = sorted(primaries, key=itemgetter('source'))
print(*[p['source'] for p in sorted_primaries], sep='\n')

dragonxi

Everything worked OK in March i.e just consider adding some of our feedbacks to the wish list.

Python code always welcome to handle the number of objects we have.

Thanks for your excellent support from our team and & stay covid-19 safe !

dragonxi

Thanks a lot Sean, Opalstack support rocks - as does Python and open source solutions!