Discourse not sending some emails

ryantm · March 31, 2021, 3:53pm

Update: we have changed to a paid subscription with Discourse, which includes a larger email quota, so the issue with not sending some emails has been resolved.

layus · April 6, 2021, 10:36pm

Hi @ryantm, Hi @zimbatm,

I do not know your motivations to move to a paid plan, but I hope it was not forced upon you by 75 mailing list users.

I am just catching up emails (and the nix mailing list!) from two weeks off for family reasons, so that explains why I did not answer faster to the personal email. Now, several options discussed above would suit me. And for the record, I would also understand if the mailing list mode had to be disabled to keep the notifications working for the majority of users.

In the meantime, thanks to those funding the discourse subscription . Am I right to guess that this is done through the NixOS foundation ?

zimbatm · April 7, 2021, 7:56am

The main motivation for the upgrade was so that users who want, can keep using the mailing-list mode. It’s an option that we believe should be available. Ryan has been working with the NixOS Foundation to use their credit card for that

lewo · April 7, 2021, 7:32pm

I’m really glad to be able to re-enable the ML mode! Thanks.

domenkozar · April 7, 2021, 9:36pm

Note that you can contribute to The NixOS Foundation - Open Collective to help fund infrastructure like this

picnoir · April 30, 2021, 8:03am

It looks like we’re already hitting a new email limit.

I get some messages ending with a

Heads up: We send a maximum of 100 daily emails. Check the site to see the ones that might be held back. PS thanks for being popular!

I also do miss a lot of responses via the ML mode.

zimbatm · April 30, 2021, 12:28pm

Looks like we’re going to have to deploy Discourse ourselves.

dpausp · April 30, 2021, 12:43pm

We, the Flying Circus would be happy to offer free hosting for the NixOS Discourse, without mail limits Our web hosting platform is running on NixOS and we were thinking about how we could contribute more to the community. I have some years of experience running Discourse on NixOS for other organisations using the official Docker approach but with the new module from @talyz this should be even more fun:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116074

I’ll try that out later today or tomorrow and I think that we can set up a test system next week.

zimbatm · April 30, 2021, 1:13pm

That would be great! PM me and let’s make that happen.

ryantm · April 30, 2021, 1:24pm

Thank you! I am willing to be a backup / complementary time zone sysadmin for it. I have a similar history with using the docker container and have begun to evaluate using that module.

talyz · April 30, 2021, 7:07pm

That’s great! I’m glad to see the module be useful so soon! I would also be happy to help out with setting up / maintaining the instance however I can. I’ll also try to keep the package up-to-date in a timely fashion, but help is always appreciated

ryantm · April 30, 2021, 7:49pm

I just adjusted it to be 1000.

dpausp · May 2, 2021, 12:05am

Great work! I have tried it out for a new instance and it works well so far. Next I’m going to play with incoming mail and migrate my old docker-based test instance.