backups: email the administrator when there's a problem

Refactor by moving the email-the-admin code out of the status checks and into a new separate tool.

This is why I suppressed non-error output of the backups last commit - so it doesn't send a daily email.

management/email_administrator.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+# Reads in STDIN. If the stream is not empty, mail it to the system administrator.
+
+import sys
+
+import smtplib
+from email.message import Message
+
+from utils import load_environment
+
+# Load system environment info.
+env = load_environment()
+
+# Process command line args.
+subject = sys.argv[1]
+
+# Administrator's email address.
+admin_addr = "administrator@" + env['PRIMARY_HOSTNAME']
+
+# Read in STDIN.
+content = sys.stdin.read().strip()
+
+# If there's nothing coming in, just exit.
+if content == "":
+	sys.exit(0)
+
+# create MIME message
+msg = Message()
+msg['From'] = "\"%s\" <%s>" % (env['PRIMARY_HOSTNAME'], admin_addr)
+msg['To'] = admin_addr
+msg['Subject'] = "[%s] %s" % (env['PRIMARY_HOSTNAME'], subject)
+msg.set_payload(content, "UTF-8")
+
+# send
+smtpclient = smtplib.SMTP('localhost', 25)
+smtpclient.ehlo()
+smtpclient.sendmail(
+        admin_addr, # MAIL FROM
+        admin_addr, # RCPT TO
+        msg.as_string())
+smtpclient.quit()