• Secrets
  • Show secret
    • Example output
  • Edit secret
  • Write raw secret
  • Secrets examples

Incoming email Rake tasks

The following are Incoming email-related Rake tasks.

Secrets

GitLab can use Incoming email secrets read from an encrypted file instead of storing them in plaintext in the file system. The following Rake tasks are provided for updating the contents of the encrypted file.

Show secret

Show the contents of the current Incoming email secrets.

sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:show

sudo docker exec -t <container name> gitlab:incoming_email:secret:show

bundle exec rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:show RAILS_ENV=production

Example output

password: 'examplepassword'
user: 'incoming-email@mail.example.com'

Edit secret

Opens the secret contents in your editor, and writes the resulting content to the encrypted secret file when you exit.

sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:edit EDITOR=vim

sudo docker exec -t <container name> gitlab:incoming_email:secret:edit EDITOR=editor

bundle exec rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:edit RAILS_ENV=production EDITOR=vim

Write raw secret

Write new secret content by providing it on STDIN.

echo -e "password: 'examplepassword'" | sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:write

sudo docker exec -t <container name> /bin/bash
echo -e "password: 'examplepassword'" | gitlab-rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:write

echo -e "password: 'examplepassword'" | bundle exec rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:write RAILS_ENV=production

Secrets examples

Editor example

The write task can be used in cases where the edit command does not work with your editor:

# Write the existing secret to a plaintext file
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:show > incoming_email.yaml
# Edit the incoming_email file in your editor
...
# Re-encrypt the file
cat incoming_email.yaml | sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:write
# Remove the plaintext file
rm incoming_email.yaml

KMS integration example

It can also be used as a receiving application for content encrypted with a KMS:

gcloud kms decrypt --key my-key --keyring my-test-kms --plaintext-file=- --ciphertext-file=my-file --location=us-west1 | sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:write

Google Cloud secret integration example

It can also be used as a receiving application for secrets out of Google Cloud:

gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret="my-test-secret" > $1 | sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:incoming_email:secret:write