Add ActionMailbox #9102
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Integrate ActionMailbox into `RequestMailer.receive` for inbound email handling. This maintains existing functionality but lays the groundwork for future enhancements. Benefits of using ActionMailbox include: 1. Enhanced email routing capabilities, enabling specialised processing like the Excel hidden data spreadsheet analyzer. 2. Refactoring opportunities for `RequestMailer#receive`, particularly for spam detection, duplicate email handling, and initial request assessment. 3. Clear separation of concerns between Mailers (for sending) and Mailboxes (for receiving). 4. Improved email processing efficiency through ActionMailbox, facilitating background job handling and potential simplification of mail ingress. 5. Provides a solution for re-users to receive emails without needing their own mail server setup.
Include options for ActionMailbox supported services in the retriever method and set the ingress setting.
Instead of calling inline extract into a method so we can call later in the install script after bundle install has been run. This is so we can set the ingress password in the Rails credentials needed for the ActionMailbox migration.
Set credentials and correctly configure Postfix pipe to use ActionMailbox ingress with the correct password.
Ensure encrypted credentials and private key aren't committed into the repo. Normally for Rails it is acceptable for the encrypted credentials to be committed but given Alaveteli powers multiple sites we don't want this.
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Relevant issue(s)
Fixes #8801
What does this do?
Refactor the mail ingression pipeline, removing source restrictions.
Adds the ability to receive email via ActionMailbox.
Why was this needed?
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Letting CI run to find broken tests. Could split out into two PRs, 1 for the refactoring and 2 adding ActionMailbox.
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