News moderation email magic links

config/settings.py

@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
 
 # Deployed email configuration
 if LOCAL_DEVELOPMENT:
-    EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend"
+    EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
 else:
     EMAIL_BACKEND = "anymail.backends.mailgun.EmailBackend"
     ANYMAIL = {

config/urls.py

@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@
     EntryDeleteView,
     EntryDetailView,
     EntryListView,
+    EntryModerationDetailView,
     EntryModerationListView,
+    EntryModerationMagicApproveView,
     EntryUpdateView,
     LinkCreateView,
     LinkListView,
@@ -229,6 +231,16 @@
         path("news/add/poll/", PollCreateView.as_view(), name="news-poll-create"),
         path("news/add/video/", VideoCreateView.as_view(), name="news-video-create"),
         path("news/moderate/", EntryModerationListView.as_view(), name="news-moderate"),
+        path(
+            "news/moderate/<slug:slug>/",
+            EntryModerationDetailView.as_view(),
+            name="news-moderate-detail",
+        ),
+        path(
+            "news/moderate/magic/<str:token>/",
+            EntryModerationMagicApproveView.as_view(),
+            name="news-magic-approve",
+        ),
         path("news/entry/<slug:slug>/", EntryDetailView.as_view(), name="news-detail"),
         path(
             "news/entry/<slug:slug>/approve/",

news/constants.py

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+NEWS_APPROVAL_SALT = "news-approval"
+MAGIC_LINK_EXPIRATION = 3600 * 24  # 24h

news/notifications.py

@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
-from django.core.mail import EmailMessage, get_connection, send_mail
+from django.core.mail import (
+    EmailMessage,
+    get_connection,
+    send_mail,
+    EmailMultiAlternatives,
+)
 from django.template import Template, Context
+from django.template.loader import render_to_string
 from django.urls import reverse
 from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
+from itsdangerous.url_safe import URLSafeTimedSerializer
 
 from .acl import moderators
+from .constants import NEWS_APPROVAL_SALT, MAGIC_LINK_EXPIRATION
 
 User = get_user_model()
 
@@ -37,47 +46,51 @@ def send_email_news_approved(request, entry):
     )
 
 
+def generate_magic_approval_link(entry_slug: str, moderator_id: int):
+    """Generate a magic link token for approving a news entry."""
+    serializer = URLSafeTimedSerializer(settings.SECRET_KEY)
+    token = serializer.dumps(
+        {"entry_slug": entry_slug, "moderator_id": moderator_id},
+        salt=NEWS_APPROVAL_SALT,
+    )
+    url = reverse("news-magic-approve", args=[token])
+    return url
+
+
 def send_email_news_needs_moderation(request, entry):
-    recipient_list = sorted(
-        u.email
+    recipient_list = [
+        u
         for u in moderators().select_related("preferences").only("email")
         if entry.tag in u.preferences.allow_notification_others_news_needs_moderation
-    )
+    ]
     if not recipient_list:
         return False
 
-    template = Template(
-        "Hello! You are receiving this email because you are a Boost news moderator.\n"
-        "The user {{ user.get_display_name|default:user.email }} has submitted a "
-        "new {{ newstype }} that requires moderation:\n\n"
-        "{{ title }}\n\n"
-        "You can view, approve or delete this item at: {{ detail_url }}.\n\n"
-        "The complete list of news pending moderation can be found at: {{ url }}\n\n"
-        "Thank you, the Boost moderator team."
-    )
-
-    body = template.render(
-        Context(
-            {
-                "entry": entry,
-                "user": entry.author,
-                "newstype": entry.tag,
-                "detail_url": mark_safe(
-                    request.build_absolute_uri(entry.get_absolute_url())
-                ),
-                "url": mark_safe(request.build_absolute_uri(reverse("news-moderate"))),
-                "title": mark_safe(entry.title),
-            }
-        )
-    )
+    context = {
+        "entry": entry,
+        "detail_url": request.build_absolute_uri(entry.get_absolute_url()),
+        "moderate_url": request.build_absolute_uri(reverse("news-moderate")),
+        "expiration_hours": int(MAGIC_LINK_EXPIRATION / 3600),
+    }
 
     subject = "Boost.org: News entry needs moderation"
-    return send_mail(
-        subject=subject,
-        message=body,
-        from_email=None,
-        recipient_list=recipient_list,
-    )
+    from_address = settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
+    # Send each recipient their own email
+    messages = []
+    for moderator in recipient_list:
+        magic_link_url = generate_magic_approval_link(
+            entry_slug=entry.slug, moderator_id=moderator.id
+        )
+        context["approval_magic_link"] = request.build_absolute_uri(magic_link_url)
+        text_body = render_to_string("news/emails/needs_moderation.txt", context)
+        html_body = render_to_string("news/emails/needs_moderation.html", context)
+        msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(
+            subject, text_body, from_address, [moderator.email]
+        )
+        msg.attach_alternative(html_body, "text/html")
+        messages.append(msg)
+    get_connection().send_messages(messages)
+    return len(messages)
 
 
 def send_email_news_posted(request, entry):

news/tests/test_notifications.py

@@ -1,15 +1,19 @@
 from datetime import date
 
 import pytest
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core import mail
 from django.utils.html import escape
 from django.urls import reverse
+from itsdangerous import URLSafeTimedSerializer
 
+from ..constants import NEWS_APPROVAL_SALT
 from ..models import NEWS_MODELS
 from ..notifications import (
     send_email_news_approved,
     send_email_news_needs_moderation,
     send_email_news_posted,
+    generate_magic_approval_link,
 )
 from users.models import Preferences
 
@@ -97,8 +101,8 @@ def test_send_email_news_needs_moderation(
     with tp.assertNumQueriesLessThan(2, verbose=True):
         result = send_email_news_needs_moderation(request, entry)
 
-    assert result == 1
-    assert len(mail.outbox) == 1
+    assert result == 4
+    assert len(mail.outbox) == 4
     msg = mail.outbox[0]
     assert "news entry needs moderation" in msg.subject.lower()
     assert entry.title in msg.body
@@ -107,9 +111,36 @@ def test_send_email_news_needs_moderation(
     assert entry.author.email in msg.body
     assert request.build_absolute_uri(entry.get_absolute_url()) in msg.body
     assert request.build_absolute_uri(reverse("news-moderate")) in msg.body
-    assert msg.recipients() == sorted(
-        [other_moderator.email, moderator_user.email, superuser.email, forth.email]
+    recipients = []
+    for msg in mail.outbox:
+        recipients.extend(msg.recipients())
+    assert set(recipients) == {
+        other_moderator.email,
+        moderator_user.email,
+        superuser.email,
+        forth.email,
+    }
+
+
+def test_generate_magic_approval_link(make_entry, make_user):
+    entry = make_entry()
+    moderator = make_user(groups={"moderator": ["news.*"]}, email="mod@x.com")
+    url = generate_magic_approval_link(entry.slug, moderator.id)
+
+    dummy_token = "dummy-token"
+    expected_base_url = (
+        reverse("news-magic-approve", kwargs={"token": dummy_token})
+        .replace(dummy_token, "")
+        .rstrip("/")
     )
+    assert url.startswith(expected_base_url)
+
+    token = url.split(expected_base_url)[-1].strip("/")
+    serializer = URLSafeTimedSerializer(settings.SECRET_KEY)
+    data = serializer.loads(token, salt=NEWS_APPROVAL_SALT)
+
+    assert data["entry_slug"] == entry.slug
+    assert data["moderator_id"] == moderator.id
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model_class", NEWS_MODELS)

news/views.py

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 from datetime import timedelta
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib import messages
+from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin, UserPassesTestMixin
 from django.contrib.humanize.templatetags import humanize
 from django.contrib.messages.views import SuccessMessageMixin
-from django.http import Http404, HttpResponseRedirect
-from django.shortcuts import redirect
+from django.http import Http404, HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponseForbidden
+from django.shortcuts import redirect, get_object_or_404
 from django.template.defaultfilters import date as datefilter
 from django.urls import reverse_lazy
 from django.utils.http import url_has_allowed_host_and_scheme
@@ -21,8 +23,10 @@
     View,
 )
 from django.views.generic.detail import SingleObjectMixin
+from itsdangerous import URLSafeTimedSerializer, SignatureExpired, BadData
 
 from .acl import can_approve
+from .constants import NEWS_APPROVAL_SALT, MAGIC_LINK_EXPIRATION
 from .forms import BlogPostForm, EntryForm, LinkForm, NewsForm, PollForm, VideoForm
 from .models import BlogPost, Entry, Link, News, Poll, Video
 from .notifications import (
@@ -31,6 +35,8 @@
     send_email_news_posted,
 )
 
+User = get_user_model()
+
 
 def get_published_or_none(sibling_getter):
     """Helper method to get next/prev published sibling of a given entry."""
@@ -129,7 +135,8 @@ class EntryDetailView(DetailView):
     template_name = "news/detail.html"
 
     def get_object(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        # Published news are available to anyone, otherwise to authors only
+        # Published news are available to anyone,
+        # otherwise to authors and moderators only
         result = super().get_object(*args, **kwargs)
         if not result.can_view(self.request.user):
             raise Http404()
@@ -148,6 +155,41 @@ def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
         return context
 
 
+class EntryModerationDetailView(LoginRequiredMixin, EntryDetailView): ...
+
+
+class EntryModerationMagicApproveView(View):
+    """Approve a news entry without requiring moderator login."""
+
+    def get(self, request, token, *args, **kwargs):
+        serializer = URLSafeTimedSerializer(settings.SECRET_KEY)
+        try:
+            data = serializer.loads(
+                token, salt=NEWS_APPROVAL_SALT, max_age=MAGIC_LINK_EXPIRATION
+            )
+            entry_slug = data["entry_slug"]
+            moderator_id = data["moderator_id"]
+            moderator = User.objects.get(id=moderator_id)
+        except SignatureExpired:
+            message = _("This link has expired.")
+            if not request.user.is_authenticated():
+                message += _(" Please login to continue.")
+            messages.warning(request, message)
+            return redirect(reverse_lazy("news-moderate"), permanent=True)
+        except (BadData, User.DoesNotExist):
+            return HttpResponseForbidden("Invalid magic link.")
+
+        entry = get_object_or_404(Entry, slug=entry_slug)
+
+        try:
+            entry.approve(moderator)
+            messages.success(request, _("This entry has been approved."))
+        except Entry.AlreadyApprovedError:
+            messages.warning(request, _("This entry has already been approved."))
+
+        return redirect(entry, permanent=True)
+
+
 class EntryCreateView(LoginRequiredMixin, SuccessMessageMixin, CreateView):
     model = None
     form_class = None

requirements.in

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ psycogreen
 gevent==24.2.1
 gunicorn
 interrogate
+itsdangerous
 psycopg2-binary
 whitenoise
 django-click

requirements.txt

@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ interrogate==1.7.0
     # via -r ./requirements.in
 ipython==8.28.0
     # via -r ./requirements.in
+itsdangerous==2.2.0
+    # via -r ./requirements.in
 jedi==0.19.1
     # via ipython
 jmespath==1.0.1