Weblate: Introduce a simple "send test email" function to validate SMTP settings

[ShadowXVII]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I find it tricky to test SMTP settings as there's no dedicated "send test email" function in Weblate.

Describe the solution you'd like
An admin function would be useful to more easily trigger a notification email to send to the admin's email address. This in turn would validate the SMTP setup.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Trying to get other users to submit dummy changes to translations.

[nijel]

The ./manage.py check --deploy does test the SMTP connection and reports if it's broken, but it doesn't try to send actual email.

[ShadowXVII]

Cool, good to know.

I'm having trouble with the "from" address and restrictions on the SMTP server side. The sending of an actual email would be a good end to end test.

[UncleSamSwiss]

@ShadowXVII: second that! It would be great to have this feature.
@nijel: can you explain how to execute ./manage.py inside the docker-compose? Also, the documentation says, one should use django-admin sendtestemail, but that doesn't work "as is" in the weblate Docker container (I get an error from python):
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting ROOT_URLCONF, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

[nijel]

See https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/management.html#invoking-management-commands for docs on executing inside docker.

Good point on sendtestemail, you can certainly use it with Weblate as well.

[ShadowXVII]

Tried sendtestemail, got the same error as above. A weblate specific test would be nice to make sure it's using accurate "from" addresses, etc.

[nijel]

If you're using docker, you need to exec it as docker-compose exec weblate weblate sendtestemail [email protected].

[ShadowXVII]

Ohh, I was using django-admin in place of the second weblate. That worked and the test email came through. Some documentation on this should be an adequate fix then.

[nijel]

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