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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 9adb44845c logtail: the sweep closes only queued rows, with reason "reconcile" (audit H3)
reconcile() closed a row through UpdateStatus (WHERE queue_id AND to_addr),
which could overwrite a "sent" the tailer wrote between the listing and the
close, and rewrite an old row of a reused queue id. store.CloseUnreported
sets status bounced and reason "reconcile" (store.ReasonReconcile; the
0006 column, no schema change) WHERE ... AND status = 'queued'; the sweep
counts rows actually closed.

Tests: store - a queued row is closed with the reason, a sent row is left
alone (0 rows); logtail - the sweep's close goes through CloseUnreported.

CHANGELOG [Unreleased], audit plan line ticked, roadmap 9/61.
Evidence: go vet ./... clean; go test ./internal/store ok, ./internal/logtail
ok but for TestFollowTailsAndRotates (Windows rename of an open file, fails
here always); the server run of the stage follows before the push.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 14:16:26 +03:00
mixandClaude Opus 5.5 c817f0833c from-header-binding: what the reviews had left as found, and address extensions
test / test (push) Canceled after 0s
The owner on the three things the reviews' commit left as found: can they be
fixed? They can.

- Downtime that crossed a UTC midnight was all booked on the day of the
  restart: it is cut at the midnights between (byDay).
- A message with the null envelope sender - a bounce an application writes
  itself - left a refusal row without a domain, which no domain
  administrator would see: the row takes the domain the login is bound to.
- A log read again after an unclean stop counted its deferrals again: while
  the tailer catches up, a warning no later than the last one counted is
  passed over. The mark is kept to the fraction of a second the log gives.

And on the check being stricter than Postfix for an address with an
extension (invoices+x@ passed in the envelope, was refused in the header):
it makes Postfix's second try now, the address without its extension.
recipient_delimiter was the distribution's default; it is set in
postfix-config.sh, since the check depends on it. e2e sends one through.

Test server, this tree: go vet ok, go test 23 packages ok, make e2e ok (339 s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 21:29:17 +03:00
mixandClaude Opus 5.5 c171fb5bc7 from-header-binding: the sender check, what it costs, its pages; guide, architecture, security
test / test (push) Canceled after 0s
A message's From: line is held against the application that sends it, under
the rule Postfix holds the envelope sender to. OpenDKIM chooses the key by
that line, so until now an application could have mail signed as another
domain of the server or as the server itself.

The check (internal/milter/sender.go)
- A role of the panel on a socket of its own (SENDER_CHECK_SOCKET), first in
  smtpd_milters and strict: default_action=tempfail. The journal milter keeps
  its socket and stays fail-open. postfix-wrapper waits for the new socket.
- It reads no database: what an application may send as comes from Postfix's
  own sender_login_maps, what the server signs for from OpenDKIM's
  SigningTable. Both are read again when they change; one that cannot be
  read defers mail.
- One From: field, one address, allowed by the envelope's lookup; then no
  other name of the SigningTable may appear anywhere in the raw line.
  Refused: 550 5.7.1 naming the line, reduced to printable ASCII.
- A refusal is a send-log row with reason "from" and the header address
  (migration 0006), written by another goroutine and not waited for. The
  journal's refusals record their reason too (limit, client), and the
  notifier takes only a limit's.

What it costs (docs/plans/from-header-binding.md, Statistics)
- The role marks itself alive every 2 s; at start the gap since the mark is
  downtime, counted from Postfix's start if later and not at all when
  supervisord says Postfix is not running.
- The log tailer counts the connections Postfix turned away: a warning that
  names the socket, then milter-reject "Service unavailable" from the same
  smtpd. Seen on the stand: the client is refused from CONNECT on and leaves
  at AUTH (454), so no MAIL line is ever written.
- sender_check_days, a row per UTC day, kept a year.

Pages
- Health: the card "Sender check", the socket's row, and the cards layout -
  boxes numbered by importance in two stacks read in rows; the left stack
  polls, the three readings of the right one are swapped in by id.
- Outbound log: a refused row says why in its tag (wrong From, wrong client,
  rate-limited); the message's page shows the From: line and what the
  application may send as.
- Help: topic "Sender check", word for word the mockup's.

Found by the stand, fixed here: the names for the second look came from the
sender bindings, and a domain with a key and no application yet was not
among them.

e2e: negative_journal_milter_fail_open is gone - it proved that mail passes
with the panel down, which is no longer so. In its place
sender_check_holds_the_from_line (another domain's From:, the hostname's, a
stranger's, an address off the list, another sender in the display name -
refused; own addresses - delivered) and panel_down_defers_mail (4xx with the
panel stopped, the container alive, mail again after, downtime and one
deferred message on Health, the card warning).

Test server, this tree before the last cosmetic edits (a fixture row, a
fact's size, docs): go vet ok, go test 23 packages ok, make e2e ok (337 s).
Locally after them: internal/web/view ok.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 19:35:43 +03:00