Sending Emails

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In order to send emails we need to configure settings for an SMTP server and enable the email notification backend in Invenio. Invenio uses Flask-Mail so the relevant settings we'll need can be found in those docs.

These can be set by adding to the list of overrides in the deployment github workflow with keys of the form invenio.extraConfig.INVENIO_MAIL_SERVER. Appropriate variables/secrets should be set under the repository deployment environments.

There is a generic role account owned by the RSE team that we can use to provide credentials if necessary.

Enabling the email backend for notifications is covered in the Invenio docs - https://inveniordm.docs.cern.ch/develop/howtos/notifications/