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>
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>
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>
mixandClaude Opus 5.5