SAC:Discourse - Revision history

Strk: simplify the procmail snippet

2026-06-13T11:00:31Z

simplify the procmail snippet

2026-06-13T06:59:21Z

2025-09-20T09:40:58Z

Mail gateway

2025-09-20T09:39:48Z

Mail gateway

2025-09-20T08:24:31Z

2025-09-20T08:09:32Z

Mail gateway

2025-09-20T08:05:58Z

2025-09-20T08:05:21Z

2025-09-19T07:24:53Z

Mail gateway

2025-09-19T07:15:04Z

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 </pre>
-Here is an example procmail snippet that use those headers to detect Discourse mails, clean them from the noise they can produce and organize them in a mailman folder named after the category:
+Here is an example procmail snippet that use those headers:
 <pre>
    # Generic OSGeo Discourse filtering
    :0
-   * ^List-ID: .*\.discourse\.osgeo\.org>
+   * ^List-ID: postgis\.discourse\.osgeo\.org>
+   postgis-discourse
 </pre>

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 OSGeo hosts a [https://discourse.org/ Discourse] server accessible at https://discourse.osgeo.org
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 It current allows OSGeo LDAP, OSGeo Gitea, GitHub, and local sign up methods
 = Deploy =

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 Receives mail on its own, via an MX record for discourse.osgeo.org (but see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3068 for an issue about that).
-The incoming mail is received via a network forward on the LXD host of port 25 for the public IP address 140.211.15.5 to the '''discourse''' VM container which in turn proxies it to the `mail-receiver' docker container. This setup has an unwanted side-effect of making the mails sent from other containers on the same LXD host as Discourse appear as coming from a private IP address, which in turn may trigger a rejection due to SPF not allowing that. See https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3395#comment:33
+The incoming mail is received via a network forward on the LXD host of port 25 for the public IP address 140.211.15.5 to the '''discourse''' VM container which in turn proxies it to the `mail-receiver' docker container. This setup has an unwanted side-effect of making the mails sent from other containers on the same LXD host as Discourse appear as coming from a private IP address, which in turn may trigger a rejection due to SPF not allowing that. See https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3395#comment:31
 == Issues ==

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 Receives mail on its own, via an MX record for discourse.osgeo.org (but see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3068 for an issue about that).
-The incoming mail is received via a network forward on the LXD host of port 25 for the public IP address 140.211.15.5 to the ```discourse``` VM container which in turn proxies it to the `mail-receiver' docker container.
+The incoming mail is received via a network forward on the LXD host of port 25 for the public IP address 140.211.15.5 to the '''discourse''' VM container which in turn proxies it to the `mail-receiver' docker container. This setup has an unwanted side-effect of making the mails sent from other containers on the same LXD host as Discourse appear as coming from a private IP address, which in turn may trigger a rejection due to SPF not allowing that. See https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3395#comment:33
 == Issues ==

← Older revision		Revision as of 08:24, 20 September 2025
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	It current allows OSGeo LDAP, OSGeo Gitea, GitHub, and local sign up methods		It current allows OSGeo LDAP, OSGeo Gitea, GitHub, and local sign up methods
		+
		+	= Deploy =
		+
		+	The deploy was done following upstream instructions here:
		+	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#6-install-discourse
		+
		+	Those instruction imply an interactive session, but at the end of the process we are left with a couple of docker containers:
		+
		+	- import
		+	- mail-receiver
		+

	= Administration =		= Administration =

← Older revision		Revision as of 08:05, 20 September 2025
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−	= Sign up =	+	= Usage =
		+
		+	== Sign up ==

	It current allows OSGeo LDAP, OSGeo Gitea, GitHub, and local sign up methods		It current allows OSGeo LDAP, OSGeo Gitea, GitHub, and local sign up methods

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 OSGeo hosts a [https://discourse.org/ Discourse] server accessible at https://discourse.osgeo.org
-The server is an LXD VM running on hosted on [[SAC Service Status#osgeo9|osgeo9]] machine and administered by the [[SAC|OSGeo System Administration Committee]].
+The service runs in a set of Docker containers inside an LXD VM hosted on [[SAC Service Status#osgeo9|osgeo9]] machine and administered by the [[SAC|OSGeo System Administration Committee]].
 Gory details are in private https://gitea.osgeo.org/sac/discourse/wiki/discourse

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 == Mail gateway ==
-Discourse sends mail via the osgeo mail service (TODO: configuration details here please, which hostname or ip address?) and receives mail on its own, via an MX record for discourse.osgeo.org (but see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3068 for an issue about that)
+Discourse sends mail using lists.osgeo.org as the SMTP server (see '''DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS''' in ''/var/discourse/containers/app.yml'') and `discourse.osgeo.org` as the domain name.
 == Issues ==

← Older revision		Revision as of 07:15, 19 September 2025
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	The server is an LXD VM running on hosted on [[SAC Service Status#osgeo9\|osgeo9]] machine and administered by the [[SAC\|OSGeo System Administration Committee]].		The server is an LXD VM running on hosted on [[SAC Service Status#osgeo9\|osgeo9]] machine and administered by the [[SAC\|OSGeo System Administration Committee]].

−	Gory details are in private https://~~git~~.osgeo.org~~/gitea~~/sac/discourse/wiki/discourse	+	Gory details are in private https://gitea.osgeo.org/sac/discourse/wiki/discourse