design: help says the sender check reads From: as OpenDKIM does

Audit 2026-10-12, stage 2c: the sender check now reads the From: line with
OpenDKIM's own parser, so the help topic says what that means for the
reader - only the address counts; a display name or a comment around it is
not judged; a line with more than one address is refused.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<div class="sp-box-head"><span class="sp-no">02</span><h2>Outbound</h2></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="dns"><h3>DNS records</h3><p>DKIM proves the message was signed by this relay, SPF lists the addresses allowed to send for the domain, DMARC tells receivers what to do when both fail and where to report. Publish all three exactly as shown; merge SPF into an existing record rather than adding a second one. A domain's status is the worst of its three records, and results are cached for a few minutes, so use Re-check DNS after publishing. The SPF check is shallow: it looks for this server's address in the record itself and does not follow <code>include:</code> or <code>redirect=</code>, so a record that relies on them is reported as a warning, not a failure. <code>p=none</code> does not affect delivery; tighten to <code>quarantine</code>, then <code>reject</code>, once the reports look clean. A domain's report address is set in its Domain settings.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="apps"><h3>Applications</h3><p>An application is one SASL login, unique across all domains. It may send as any address of its domain or only as listed addresses, and, with a list of client IPs set, only from those addresses. The password is shown once at creation or regeneration and is not stored in readable form.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="sender-check"><h3>Sender check</h3><p>An application sends only as itself, and that holds for both senders a message has. The envelope sender is held against the login by Postfix. The <code>From:</code> line, the one a mail program shows and the one the DKIM signature is chosen by, is held against it by the panel, under the same rule: an application set to any address of its domain may write any address of that domain, and one with a list of addresses only those. A message with any other <code>From:</code> - another of your domains, the server's own name, an address somewhere else, or none at all - is refused for good with <code>550 5.7.1</code>. It is a rejected row of the Outbound log, and its page says which address was refused. This is what keeps one application from getting mail signed with another domain's key.<br><br>The check is strict. While the panel does not answer, Postfix does not accept mail unchecked: it replies with a temporary error and the application sends again later. Server › Health counts what that costs: for how long the panel did not answer while Postfix itself was running; how many connections Postfix turned away because of it - it refuses from the connection on, before a message is offered, so a client that tries three times is three and a monitor that only connects is one; and how many messages were refused with a temporary error in the middle, when the panel stopped answering after a message had begun. A time marked ≈ includes a start at which supervisord could not say since when Postfix was running: the time since the panel's last sign of life is counted, which may be more than Postfix was up. The card warns when a connection was turned away or a message refused in the last 24 hours. If the numbers stay at nothing, the check is where it should be; if they do not, it belongs in a process of its own.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="sender-check"><h3>Sender check</h3><p>An application sends only as itself, and that holds for both senders a message has. The envelope sender is held against the login by Postfix. The <code>From:</code> line, the one a mail program shows and the one the DKIM signature is chosen by, is held against it by the panel, under the same rule: an application set to any address of its domain may write any address of that domain, and one with a list of addresses only those. A message with any other <code>From:</code> - another of your domains, the server's own name, an address somewhere else, or none at all - is refused for good with <code>550 5.7.1</code>. The line is read the way the signer, OpenDKIM, reads it, so only its address counts: what a display name or a comment around it says is not judged, and a line holding more than one address is refused. The line is read the way the signer, OpenDKIM, reads it, so only its address counts: what a display name or a comment around it says is not judged, and a line holding more than one address is refused. It is a rejected row of the Outbound log, and its page says which address was refused. This is what keeps one application from getting mail signed with another domain's key.<br><br>The check is strict. While the panel does not answer, Postfix does not accept mail unchecked: it replies with a temporary error and the application sends again later. Server › Health counts what that costs: for how long the panel did not answer while Postfix itself was running; how many connections Postfix turned away because of it - it refuses from the connection on, before a message is offered, so a client that tries three times is three and a monitor that only connects is one; and how many messages were refused with a temporary error in the middle, when the panel stopped answering after a message had begun. A time marked ≈ includes a start at which supervisord could not say since when Postfix was running: the time since the panel's last sign of life is counted, which may be more than Postfix was up. The card warns when a connection was turned away or a message refused in the last 24 hours. If the numbers stay at nothing, the check is where it should be; if they do not, it belongs in a process of its own.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="limits"><h3>Rate limits</h3><p>Level 1 is a per-IP ceiling set in <code>.env</code>. Level 2 is optional, per domain and per application, entered by hand or computed from the last 30 days of sending, and can never exceed level 1. An application's own limit replaces its domain's.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="log"><h3>Outbound log</h3><p>One row per message and recipient, with the status Postfix last reported: queued (accepted, nothing reported yet), sent (the receiving server took it; what the mailbox does next is not reported back), deferred (not taken yet, Postfix tries again), bounced (failed for good, or the queue lifetime ran out; or closed by the panel when Postfix no longer held the message and <code>mail.log</code> never said what became of it) and rejected (refused before queueing, so it never reached the queue: under a level-2 rate limit, from a client address the application does not allow, or for a <code>From:</code> line that is not the application's - the message's page says which). A message's page lists these steps and the lines Postfix wrote about it in <code>mail.log</code>, found by queue id - and for a message refused before it had one, Postfix's one line about the refusal. The lines are kept with the row: they stay on the page after that file has rotated, for as long as the row does. A message accepted before version 2.2.0 shows them only while they are still in the current file. Rows are deleted after the retention set in Server › Settings, 90 days by default, and their lines with them. A domain administrator sees only the rows of their own domains.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="queue"><h3>Queue and retries</h3><p>The page lists, as <code>postqueue -p</code> prints it, the messages Postfix has accepted and not yet delivered: mail being sent right now and mail deferred for a later attempt. Only the global role can open it, and it only shows; nothing here deletes or forces a message. A deferred message is tried again after the first retry delay, then at gaps that double up to a cap, until the receiving server takes it or the queue lifetime runs out and it bounces; there is no attempt counter, and the box on the page shows this server's values. A queue that keeps growing means a receiver is refusing or not answering: open the message from the Outbound log to read the reason Postfix logged.</p></div>
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<div class="sp-box-head"><span class="sp-no">02</span><h2>Outbound</h2></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="dns"><h3>DNS records</h3><p>DKIM proves the message was signed by this relay, SPF lists the addresses allowed to send for the domain, DMARC tells receivers what to do when both fail and where to report. Publish all three exactly as shown; merge SPF into an existing record rather than adding a second one. A domain's status is the worst of its three records, and results are cached for a few minutes, so use Re-check DNS after publishing. The SPF check is shallow: it looks for this server's address in the record itself and does not follow <code>include:</code> or <code>redirect=</code>, so a record that relies on them is reported as a warning, not a failure. <code>p=none</code> does not affect delivery; tighten to <code>quarantine</code>, then <code>reject</code>, once the reports look clean. A domain's report address is set in its Domain settings.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="apps"><h3>Applications</h3><p>An application is one SASL login, unique across all domains. It may send as any address of its domain or only as listed addresses, and, with a list of client IPs set, only from those addresses. The password is shown once at creation or regeneration and is not stored in readable form.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="sender-check"><h3>Sender check</h3><p>An application sends only as itself, and that holds for both senders a message has. The envelope sender is held against the login by Postfix. The <code>From:</code> line, the one a mail program shows and the one the DKIM signature is chosen by, is held against it by the panel, under the same rule: an application set to any address of its domain may write any address of that domain, and one with a list of addresses only those. A message with any other <code>From:</code> - another of your domains, the server's own name, an address somewhere else, or none at all - is refused for good with <code>550 5.7.1</code>. It is a rejected row of the Outbound log, and its page says which address was refused. This is what keeps one application from getting mail signed with another domain's key.<br><br>The check is strict. While the panel does not answer, Postfix does not accept mail unchecked: it replies with a temporary error and the application sends again later. Server › Health counts what that costs: for how long the panel did not answer while Postfix itself was running; how many connections Postfix turned away because of it - it refuses from the connection on, before a message is offered, so a client that tries three times is three and a monitor that only connects is one; and how many messages were refused with a temporary error in the middle, when the panel stopped answering after a message had begun. A time marked ≈ includes a start at which supervisord could not say since when Postfix was running: the time since the panel's last sign of life is counted, which may be more than Postfix was up. The card warns when a connection was turned away or a message refused in the last 24 hours. If the numbers stay at nothing, the check is where it should be; if they do not, it belongs in a process of its own.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="sender-check"><h3>Sender check</h3><p>An application sends only as itself, and that holds for both senders a message has. The envelope sender is held against the login by Postfix. The <code>From:</code> line, the one a mail program shows and the one the DKIM signature is chosen by, is held against it by the panel, under the same rule: an application set to any address of its domain may write any address of that domain, and one with a list of addresses only those. A message with any other <code>From:</code> - another of your domains, the server's own name, an address somewhere else, or none at all - is refused for good with <code>550 5.7.1</code>. The line is read the way the signer, OpenDKIM, reads it, so only its address counts: what a display name or a comment around it says is not judged, and a line holding more than one address is refused. The line is read the way the signer, OpenDKIM, reads it, so only its address counts: what a display name or a comment around it says is not judged, and a line holding more than one address is refused. It is a rejected row of the Outbound log, and its page says which address was refused. This is what keeps one application from getting mail signed with another domain's key.<br><br>The check is strict. While the panel does not answer, Postfix does not accept mail unchecked: it replies with a temporary error and the application sends again later. Server › Health counts what that costs: for how long the panel did not answer while Postfix itself was running; how many connections Postfix turned away because of it - it refuses from the connection on, before a message is offered, so a client that tries three times is three and a monitor that only connects is one; and how many messages were refused with a temporary error in the middle, when the panel stopped answering after a message had begun. A time marked ≈ includes a start at which supervisord could not say since when Postfix was running: the time since the panel's last sign of life is counted, which may be more than Postfix was up. The card warns when a connection was turned away or a message refused in the last 24 hours. If the numbers stay at nothing, the check is where it should be; if they do not, it belongs in a process of its own.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="limits"><h3>Rate limits</h3><p>Level 1 is a per-IP ceiling set in <code>.env</code>. Level 2 is optional, per domain and per application, entered by hand or computed from the last 30 days of sending, and can never exceed level 1. An application's own limit replaces its domain's.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="log"><h3>Outbound log</h3><p>One row per message and recipient, with the status Postfix last reported: queued (accepted, nothing reported yet), sent (the receiving server took it; what the mailbox does next is not reported back), deferred (not taken yet, Postfix tries again), bounced (failed for good, or the queue lifetime ran out; or closed by the panel when Postfix no longer held the message and <code>mail.log</code> never said what became of it) and rejected (refused before queueing, so it never reached the queue: under a level-2 rate limit, from a client address the application does not allow, or for a <code>From:</code> line that is not the application's - the message's page says which). A message's page lists these steps and the lines Postfix wrote about it in <code>mail.log</code>, found by queue id - and for a message refused before it had one, Postfix's one line about the refusal. The lines are kept with the row: they stay on the page after that file has rotated, for as long as the row does. A message accepted before version 2.2.0 shows them only while they are still in the current file. Rows are deleted after the retention set in Server › Settings, 90 days by default, and their lines with them. A domain administrator sees only the rows of their own domains.</p></div>
<div class="sp-help-topic" id="queue"><h3>Queue and retries</h3><p>The page lists, as <code>postqueue -p</code> prints it, the messages Postfix has accepted and not yet delivered: mail being sent right now and mail deferred for a later attempt. Only the global role can open it, and it only shows; nothing here deletes or forces a message. A deferred message is tried again after the first retry delay, then at gaps that double up to a cap, until the receiving server takes it or the queue lifetime runs out and it bounces; there is no attempt counter, and the box on the page shows this server's values. A queue that keeps growing means a receiver is refusing or not answering: open the message from the Outbound log to read the reason Postfix logged.</p></div>