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mixandClaude Opus 5.5 1c6e04b7d3 base-trixie: the image on Debian trixie, Postfix 3.10.13; Received: hidden on 465/587
test / test (push) Canceled after 0s
The runtime base is debian:trixie-slim, the build stage golang:1.26-trixie:
Postfix 3.10.13 with upstream's 2026 security fixes up to the August
batch, libmilter 8.18.1, OpenSSL 3.5. Every citation of another program in
code, scripts and documents was re-read against the trixie sources
(dev/upstream; bookworm's kept in dev/upstream-bookworm) and updated;
development.md's cited-package table holds the trixie versions.

What the re-reading changed in behaviour:
- logtail: reject lines with sasl_method/sasl_username/sasl_sender
  (smtpd_check.c:1019-1026); cleanup's "removed (canceled)" forgets a
  port-25 id (cleanup_api.c:363-364).
- internal/postfix/retry.go reads postconf's stdout only: since 3.9 a
  deprecated-parameter warning on stderr made one value too many and the
  panel fell back to the compiled-in retry policy.
- logrotate-loop.sh: logrotate 3.22 exits 1 when it ignores a config;
  the loop refuses on that output whatever the status.
- postfix-config.sh: cyrus_sasl_config_path set explicitly (bookworm's
  07_sasl_config.diff is gone); maillog_file_permissions=0640; mynetworks
  explicit; Dockerfile: SYNC_CHROOT= in /etc/default/postfix,
  opendkim-tools dropped, openssl named, systemd-standalone-sysusers so
  cron does not bring the whole of systemd.
- The selfpost group is 10998, outside the system range 100-999: in
  trixie a package took 998 and the build failed (owner's decision:
  a conflict-free id, the distribution's own ids untouched). The
  entrypoint hands /data back by name when the user or the group differs.
  Guide, backup refusal text, help (design commit 68ec8b2), e2e.
- smtpd_hide_client_session=yes on smtps and submission (owner's
  decision): Received: names no client, TLS, login or protocol; port 25
  keeps the full header. e2e checks both.
- test/upstream/opendkim-probe.sh makes keys with openssl genrsa.

Tests: on the server, make e2e exit 0 (674 s, the image built on trixie),
go vet + go test 27 packages ok. CHANGELOG [Unreleased], guide,
architecture.md, security.md, roadmap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-15 19:31:35 +03:00
mixandClaude Opus 5.5 ce363f48dd logtail, health, panel: cite the source of what they rely on (assumptions part A)
Comments only, no behaviour changed. Each place the log tailer, Health and
cmd/panel rely on another program now says where that is written, for the
version the image runs: Postfix 3.7.11 (log_adhoc(), msg_logger_print(),
smtpd_whatsup(), cleanup_milter.c, qmgr_active.c, postlogd.c, showq.c,
pipe.c), logrotate 3.21.0, supervisor 4.2.5, proc(5). Measurements stay
measurements and say where and when; test fixtures say whether they were
seen or composed.

Where the source contradicts the code the comment does not bless it but
names the register entry (A-8 expiry, A-12 the ISO stamp no Postfix writes,
A-15 the last recipient, A-21/A-23 sasl_username, A-33 postlogd's old
inode, A-38 a socket file is not a listener, A-65 the certificate served);
those are fixed in their own commits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 19:36:11 +03:00
mixandClaude Opus 5.5 60c7b85f84 findings of the reviews of audit stage 1
test / test (push) Canceled after 0s
Technical review (Opus) and security review (Fable) of 9efc9c7..a59e3d4;
reports in the session's scratchpad. Fixed:

- B1 (verified bug): store.UpdateStatus read before writing in its
  transaction; a commit by another connection in between (the dmarc-ingest
  process opens the same file) failed it at once with "database is locked"
  and the delivery line was lost. The first statement is now a write.
- R3: a delivery line updated every row of its queue id and recipient; it
  now updates only the newest (Postfix reuses short ids). The sweep closes
  by row id (QueuedDelivery.ID, CloseUnreported(id)).
- R4: a contradicted sweep keeps a mark, reason "reconcile-contradicted",
  instead of losing which row it was.
- R1: contradicted cannot see a lost line (never read late). New counter
  reconcile_missed: at close, the sweep looks for the row's delivery line
  in mail.log and mail.log.1 (QueueLines). 0007 edited - it has run on no
  database but throwaway stands.
- R2: queued_over_lifetime cannot measure "what removing the sweep would
  leave" while the sweep runs; its text now says rows stuck despite the
  sweep, and the rule uses closed - missed - contradicted.
- cert-reload (R5, R6, R7, security medium/low): both files copied to .new
  and the copies checked as a pair before both are renamed; acts on the copy
  only when postconf says Postfix reads it; a failed reload is retried next
  pass; umask 077; says so when the mounted files cannot be read. The e2e
  case asserts Postfix reads the copy, the copy equals the mount, the key is
  600 root.
- Security low: a recipient with a quoted local part - the journal cut
  "a b"@x at the space, deliveryRe cut "a>b"@x at the ">" - matched no
  delivery line and was closed by the sweep. cleanAddress ends a bracketed
  address at the first ">" outside quotes; deliveryRe takes the recipient
  up to the ">, " before relay= (test fixtures given the relay= every real
  delivery line has).
- Security low: postqueue -p's error carries at most 512 bytes of output.
- Nits: addDeliveryLogDay refuses a column not on its list; the truncation
  test checks its message.
- To stage 2b (page wording, mockup-first): the history step of a bounced
  row says the receiving server refused it, false for a row the sweep
  closed. To the owner when stage 2b is reached: since M13 the "deferred"
  figure counts whole messages too, which "Connections turned away" would
  not name.

Found while verifying: the e2e's main positive path failed once with "553
not owned by user app1" - an smtpd idle from before the panel's reload took
the connection in the reload's second. Measured on the stand (one-off
probe, not committed): sending 0, 10, 40, 110 s after the save (two seconds
at the soonest) always met an smtpd started after the reload. The e2e now
waits for the sender map after each application it creates
(waitForSenderMap: AUTH, MAIL, RCPT, RSET - no message, no row), and the
level-1 case uses it instead of its own loop.

Docs: architecture § Queue reconcile, schema-migrations (rows 7 and 8,
chain head 8), CHANGELOG, audit plan (stage 1 note, the measured window,
a new stage 2b line: 62 lines), roadmap 15/62.

Evidence on the test server for this tree: go vet clean, go test ./... 23
packages ok, make e2e exit 0 (renewed certificate, hung panel, level 1 at
49/60).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 15:21:52 +03:00
mixandClaude Opus 5.5 a990e7cc23 delivery-log-storage: findings of the technical and security reviews
test / test (push) Canceled after 0s
Neither review (read-only agents, Opus and Fable, over ae06d8b..815236a) has
a Critical or High finding. What they found and what was done:

- A stranger on port 25 could grow the table: every queue-id line of inbound
  mail was stored and pruned an hour or more later, his own message-id among
  them. The tailer now leaves out the lines of a queue id that
  postfix/inbound/smtpd opened, until qmgr removes the message or another
  listener opens one under the id; 4096 such ids are remembered.
- A commit, so a disk sync, per stored line on the connection the journal
  milter shares, and a backlog written line by line. Lines are now written in
  one transaction per pass over the log, 500 at most, before the read offset
  is saved (InsertSendLogLines; follow() calls the keeper's flush).
- The prune asked the send log once per line and ran hourly. It asks once per
  queue id and runs at start and with the six-hourly sweep; with port-25 mail
  left out there is little without a row to wait for.
- The 4096-byte cut could split a character; it keeps characters whole.
- security.md did not say that a backup now carries these lines, and the plan
  said the time window excludes a reused queue id where it only limits the
  chance to the row's queue lifetime. Both are corrected; the collision is
  recorded as an accepted risk with its trigger.
- Tests that did not prove their comments: the prune is now tested with the
  sweep, a rejected row next to the prune, batching and the change from
  catching up to following, port-25 mail left out and its id reused.

Left as found and written down in the plan: lines the tailer never reads
(a file rotated away while the panel was down), and a message in the queue
across the upgrade, which shows only its later lines.

On the test server, for this tree: go vet clean, go test ./... 22 packages
ok, make e2e ok.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 10:41:04 +03:00
mixandClaude Opus 5.5 81df131217 delivery-log-storage: the tailer keeps the lines of queued messages
Every mail.log line headed by a queue id is written to send_log_lines as the
tailer reads it, dated by the line's own stamp. The id is taken from the head
of the line only - the tail is the far end's text - and has to look like one:
"NOQUEUE:" and "warning:" stand in the same place.

The tailer does not check for a send-log row first: a message's first lines
come before the journal milter writes it. Lines that never get a row are
removed by the prune, which deletes lines older than an hour whose queue id
no row carries. It runs at start, after each send-log sweep and hourly.

While the tailer catches up at start a line is written only if it is not
there already, as the inbound journal does: its place is saved every few
seconds, so an unclean stop means reading some lines twice.

Checked on Windows: go vet clean; go test ./internal/logtail passes except
TestFollowTailsAndRotates, which fails there on renaming an open file and
always did. New tests: which line heads are queue ids, a line dated by its
stamp, no second copy after a rewound offset, the prune cadence and cutoff.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 10:11:28 +03:00