Support for intelmq-cb-mailgen

[bernhardreiter]

It would be nice to support https://github.com/Intevation/intelmq-mailgen-release setups.

Mainly this means that the path of the outgoing information has to be steered.
This can be done by a combination of

• adding additional input via the webfrontend
• documenting how to add additional configuration (e.g. rule scripts or mailgen scripts).

The design and data flow of intemq-cb-mailgen can best be learned from reading:

• https://github.com/Intevation/intelmq-mailgen/tree/master/docs
• Section "Interaction with IntelMQ and the events database" of https://github.com/Intevation/intelmq-mailgen/blob/master/README.md

[bernhardreiter]

Technical ideas

Level 1: manual configuration by administrators

• Test and fix ability of webinput-csv to run on intelmy-cb-mailgen installations (Version of intelmq. Bring in Flask. Integrate into webserver) may include packaging
• Pointing towards the documentation of writing rule scripts, mailgen template and mailgen scripts.
• Testing for results have to be done on a staging system.

Disadvantages: Needs an admin trained for the task. Does not hold records of what has been done (would need to be done externally to the system).

Level 2: usable by abuse-operators

• Create an additional table in the eventdb, working title inserts at to be able to hold texts for a notification batch.
• Extend webinput-cvs to be able to write to inserts and to add a special feedname so that
  mailgen can notice which text to use.
• Extend mailgen to access inserts and make the specific entry available to the scripts.
• Extend Fody to show details about the past inserts so it is on record.
• (Will still be tested on a stating system).

Level 3: additional testing mode

This is level 2 extended to have a testing mode within the system.

[bernhardreiter]

Starting with level 1 (but on an intelmq-cb-mailgen setup on an old Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).

Other ideas include to partially rewrite, e.g. the backend or the frontend.

[ghost]

Starting with level 1 (but on an intelmq-cb-mailgen setup on an old Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).

That's waste of resources. Ubuntu 16.04 has Python 3.5 which won't be supported by IntelMQ's next feature release 2.3.0

[bernhardreiter]

@wagner-certat I agree that it is suboptimal, thus I've suggested to change that requirement.