> On Jun 23, 2020, at 3:10 AM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 5:16 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I use Python to run a local mail debugger:
>>
>> $ python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025
>>
>> :sendmail:
>> address: localhost
>> port: 1025
>> delivery_method: smtp
>
> Cool! This should be added to one of the markdown files in the whimsy
> repository.. Here's another option:
> https://nodemailer.com/smtp/testing/
>
> Craig - it looks like gmail has changed. It's their service, if you
> use it, I guess you need to abide by their changing rules.
>
> You should have gotten an email with a subject line of "Critical
> security alert" that explained that the "Sign-in attempt was blocked"
> and leads you to the following page:
>
> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
>
> This, too, should be updated in the markdown files.
I've temporarily set Google to allow malicious apps to use the email account.
If I continue I will enable application password but for now, the local mail
test program works ok.
>
> Finally, you can see what user and group the apache server runs under
> by looking at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. Search for User. Either this
> user need to be able to read your ~/.whimsy file, or you need to
> change httpd.conf to use a different user.
It is set up for user _www group _www. I tried to make .whimsy readable by
group _www but I cannot because I'm not in group _www. In fact, I cannot find
user _www or group _www in my Apple Users and Groups.
So how do I allow httpd to access .whimsy?
> If you change the user,
> some of the subdirectories in /srv will need their permissions
> changed. setupmymac has a --user option which will change the server
> and these directories to run with your user id. If you do that, you
> might want to lock down your server:
>
> https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/MACOSX.md#configure-apache-httpd-to-run-under-your-user-id
>
> - Sam Ruby
Craig L Russell
c...@apache.org
