panel-notifications: findings of the technical and security reviews
test / test (push) Canceled after 0s

Neither review (read-only agents, Opus and Fable, over 972a9f8..400aa76) has
a Critical finding. Both found the same serious one, and more:

- The notification about refused mail was built on what a rejected row says
  of itself. Its domain is the one in MAIL FROM, which the client typed and
  Postfix has not yet held against the login when the milter refuses: an
  application over its limit could have had the panel write a message per
  made-up domain, to another tenant's users among others. And the same
  status is written when an application is refused for its client address,
  which is no limit. Refusals are now counted by the domain the login is
  registered under, only for logins that exist and only while a limit is set
  on the login or its domain; one subject per sending domain. They are read
  through a partial index of their own (migration 0005): the query walked
  the whole send log every minute.
- Account and user e-mails were checked with the DMARC report validator,
  which refuses Gmail and the like - the owner's own kind of address. A new
  validate.AccountEmail accepts them and refuses a local part beginning "-".
- "Said" now means sent: what arises while nobody can be told, or while
  Postfix does not take the message, is told at a later check. Its ending
  with nobody left to tell is simply over.
- Two DNS checks must be 45 minutes apart as well as two: the last check
  before a restart and the first after it were minutes apart.
- The notifier's own mail waiting in the queue, and its bounce coming back
  to postmaster@ this server, are not the queue's subject. A listing cut at
  its size limit or with a line too long to read is no listing; postqueue -j
  gets 30 seconds.
- The tables must name the selector the panel shows, not only have the line.
- An a/mx lookup that did not answer inside the SPF check made the record
  "not authorising"; it is "cannot tell" now, for the pages too.
- A ceiling of 60 messages an hour; a pass stops between domains when the
  process is asked to stop; sendmail gets a WaitDelay; days are rounded as a
  person counts; a failed read of the switch shows it on, not off.

Recorded as accepted in security.md, with a roadmap candidate
(from-header-binding): an application can have a message signed as the
server's own name - or, as always, as another registered domain - by writing
it into the From: header, which nothing holds against the login.

Left as found: a recipient whose copy failed while another's went out is not
tried again; a certificate that lives under 14 days is reported at each
renewal.

On the test server, for this tree: go vet clean, go test ./... 23 packages
ok, make e2e ok (326 s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -159,10 +159,16 @@ by the panel. Socket `/run/opendkim/opendkim.sock`.
The server's own name (`SELFPOST_HOSTNAME`) has a key and a line in both
tables too, without being a row of the registry
(`domain.Service.SetServerName`): the panel's notifications are sent as
`postmaster@` that name and signed with it. No application can send as it -
the sender map is built from the registry. A sending domain of the same name
shares its key and selector with the server, and deleting that domain leaves
the key in place.
`postmaster@` that name and signed with it. No application can use it as an
envelope sender - the sender map is built from the registry - but the
`From:` header is not held against the login, so an application can still
have a message signed as the server ([security.md](security.md) § Accepted
risks). A sending domain of the same name shares its key and selector with
the server; deleting that domain leaves the server signed under the default
selector, which is the same key only if that was the domain's. At its start
the notifier makes sure the tables have the line and name the selector the
panel shows (`EnsureServerSigned`): tables are otherwise rebuilt only when a
domain is added or deleted.
### Panel binary ([cmd/panel](../cmd/panel))
@@ -219,13 +225,32 @@ is sent; the operator's view is guide § Notifications.
forced past the cache (`cmd/panel/notifier.go` builds the same query a
domain's page does); the certificate file; `postqueue -j` for the arrival
time of each queued message. Once a minute: the send log's `rejected` rows
of the last day, per domain and application.
of the last day, through a partial index of their own.
- **A refused row is not believed whole.** Its domain is the one in
`MAIL FROM`, which the client typed and Postfix has not yet held against
the login when the milter refuses; the same status is written when an
application is refused for its client address. So refusals are counted by
the domain the login is registered under, only for logins that exist, and
only while a level-2 limit is set on the login or its domain
(`Store.LimitRefusalsSince`). One subject per sending domain, whichever of
its applications are refused.
- **State** is a row per subject in `notify_state` (`dns:<domain>`, `cert`,
`queue`, `limit:<domain>:<login>`), which is what makes each thing be said
`queue`, `limit:<domain>`), which is what makes each thing be said
once and a restart say nothing again. A DNS subject goes *pending* on the
first bad check and *open*, with a message, on the second; back the same
way. The certificate's row remembers which threshold was said for which
expiry. A deleted domain's row goes with it.
first bad check and *open*, with a message, on a later one at least 45
minutes after it - a count alone would let the last check before a restart
and the first after it stand for "an hour apart"; back the same way. The
certificate's row remembers which threshold was said for which expiry. A
deleted domain's row goes with it.
- **Said means sent.** A problem that arises while no user can be told, or
while Postfix does not take the message, stays unsaid and is told at a
later check. Its ending, with nobody left to tell, is simply over. If one
recipient's copy fails and another's goes out, the subject is said.
- **The notifier's own mail is not a subject.** A notification waiting for a
mailbox that does not answer, or its bounce coming back to
`postmaster@<hostname>` - which receives no mail - is left out of the
queue check.
- **A ceiling** of 60 messages an hour stands over all of it.
- **No information is not a finding.** A lookup that did not answer, a queue
that cannot be listed, a certificate that cannot be read move no state.
- **Recipients** come from the store at the moment of sending: global users