User invite emails not sending

[bkiahstroud]

Story

Users are not receiving invitation emails when invited via Dashboard > Manage Users > Add or Invite user via email form.

This task was broken off from #17

Acceptance Criteria

• Users can receive and accept email invitations

[bkiahstroud]

@ShanaLMoore recently fixed emails not sending in PALs. The same issue may be what's causing this ticket. Here's what Shana said about the PALs fix:

i can tell you the solution working a few day ago. the contact_email must be on the "allow list"
if users are setting that to whatever email they want, it will not get sent.
we've contributed a fix back to hyku that should help users understand that a bit better

Related PR:

• 🐛 Correct contact_email and contact_email_to descriptions samvera/hyku#2031

[bkiahstroud]

Related PR:

• i18 Update config values for email addresses #19

[ShanaLMoore]

Initially the problem was the tenant/account's contact_email wasn't part of Amazon's ses allow list.

But in the latest issue, emails weren't getting sent because of a change in the workflow/GitHub deploy action versions we were using (0.0.14).

For pals Rob upgraded us to 0.0.15, but April has since updated the previous version to include the SMTP credentials so any existing app using 0.0.14 should be ok now. 🙏🏿

Rob noticed that the SMTP_PASSWORD was empty on the production server, which prompted his fix.

Also helpful to reference is this playbook article, which helps determine if there's an error when sending emails, from the rails console.

I Hope that helps! Let me know if you'd like to pair.