after many diversions and forlorn pivot from copilot to claude, new infra/ structure contains group_vars and ansible vaults; requests added to dev and prod dependencies; apps.lyric.views and core

.settings both abandon django's send_mail(); instead incorporate requests to target Mailgun's HTTP API (DigitalOcean's SMTP blocker thwarted previous magic login link email attempts, but this issue has been resol
ved with this commit)

src/apps/lyric/views.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import requests
 from django.contrib import auth, messages
-from django.core.mail import send_mail
+from django.conf import settings
+# from django.core.mail import send_mail
 from django.shortcuts import redirect
 from django.urls import reverse
 from .models import Token
@@ -11,12 +13,21 @@ def send_login_email(request):
         reverse("login") + "?token=" + str(token.uid),
     )
     message_body = f"Use this magic link to login to your Dashboard:\n\n{url}"
-    send_mail(
-        "A magic login link to your Dashboard",
-        message_body,
-        "adman@howdy.earthmanrpg.me",
-        [email],
+    # Send mail via Mailgun HTTP API
+    response = requests.post(
+        f"https://api.mailgun.net/v3/{settings.MAILGUN_DOMAIN}/messages",
+        auth=("api", settings.MAILGUN_API_KEY),
+        data={
+            "from": "adman@howdy.earthmanrpg.me",
+            "to": email,
+            "subject": "A magic login link to your Dashboard",
+            "text": message_body,
+        },
     )
+    # Log any errors
+    if response.status_code != 200:
+        print(f"Mailgun API error: {response.status_code}: {response.text}")
+
     messages.success(
         request,
         "Check your email!—there you'll find a magic login link. But hurry… it's only temporary!",

src/core/settings.py

@@ -156,4 +156,7 @@ EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.mailgun.org"
 EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ.get("EMAIL_HOST_USER") # switch back to .environ[] when collectstatic moved outside docker build process
 EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ.get("EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD") # switch back to .environ[]
 EMAIL_PORT = 587
-EMAIL_USER_TLS = True
+EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
+# Mailgun API settings (for HTTP API instead of SMTP)
+MAILGUN_API_KEY = os.environ.get("MAILGUN_API_KEY")
+MAILGUN_DOMAIN = "howdy.earthmanrpg.me" # Your Mailgun domain