// Package milter implements the SelfPost journal-milter: a lightweight milter // (architecture.md § Mail path) attached to Postfix's smtpd_milters alongside // OpenDKIM. On the receive path it reads the SASL login, From, recipients and // Subject of each accepted message and records one send-log row per (queue-id, // recipient), giving the panel a structured, filterable history that raw // mail.log cannot. // // It is monitoring only: it never rejects, and every callback returns Continue // or Accept so a failure of this milter can never block the relay. Postfix is // configured with default_action=accept for this milter's socket, so even a // crash or hang fails open (architecture.md § Mail path). // // Postfix 3.7.11, src/milter/milter8.c, milter8_comm_error(): a milter that // cannot be reached, or does not answer within milter_*_timeout, gives no // reply with default_action=accept - the message goes on. package milter import ( "context" "log" "net" "net/textproto" "strings" "time" "github.com/emersion/go-milter" "github.com/mixeme/selfpost/internal/mailhdr" "github.com/mixeme/selfpost/internal/store" ) // Store is the persistence the milter needs on the receive path: recording // accepted messages (architecture.md § Mail path) and, for level-2 rate // limiting (guide § Rate limiting), looking up the configured limits and // counting recent messages. *store.Store satisfies it; tests substitute a // fake. type Store interface { InsertQueued(e store.SendLogEntry) error InsertRejected(e store.SendLogEntry) error RateLimit(scope, ref string) (store.RateLimit, bool, error) CountMessages(scope, ref string, since time.Time) (int64, error) ApplicationByLogin(login string) (store.Application, error) } // session accumulates the fields of one message as the milter callbacks fire. // Milter macros arrive per-stage and do not accumulate, so each value is // captured at the stage that carries it (architecture.md § Mail path): SASL // login and From at MAIL, each recipient at RCPT, Subject in the headers, and // the queue-id at end-of-message. go-milter creates one session per // connection; a connection may carry several messages, so per-message fields // are reset at MailFrom (the start of every transaction). // // go-milter v0.4.1, session.go, Process(), case CodeMacro: every macro packet // replaces the map; server.go, Serve(): NewMilter() for each connection. // Postfix 3.7.11, src/milter/milter8.c, milter8_event(): a macro packet, empty // or not, goes before every event (milter.c, milter_macro_lookup(), never // returns null). type session struct { milter.NoOpMilter rec Store // flight is shared by every session of the process; it holds the messages // that passed the level-2 check but are not in the send log yet. Nil is a // valid zero value (no in-flight accounting). flight *inflight // clientIP is the client's address. Postfix gives it at Connect, once per // connection, and again with every MAIL FROM as the {client_addr} macro // (milter_mail_macros in build/postfix-config.sh). The second is the one // that can be relied on: see MailFrom. Postfix 3.7.11, // src/smtpd/smtpd_milter.c, smtpd_milter_eval(): {client_addr} is // state->rfc_addr (see clientAddr). clientIP string login string from string rcpts []string subject string reserved []*reservation // level-2 slots held by the current message } // Connect captures the client IP of a connection's first message. It is not // enough on its own - see MailFrom. // // Postfix 3.7.11, src/smtpd/smtpd.c, smtpd_proto(): milter_conn_event() is // given state->addr, the address without "IPv6:". go-milter v0.4.1, // session.go, case CodeConn: net.ParseIP of it - nil for "unknown" and for a // family that sends no address. func (s *session) Connect(host, family string, port uint16, addr net.IP, m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) { if addr != nil { s.clientIP = addr.String() } return milter.RespContinue, nil } // MailFrom starts a new message: reset per-message state, then capture the // envelope sender and the SASL login ({auth_authen}, carried by the MAIL-stage // macros). This is also the earliest stage where both the sending domain (from // the sender) and the application (the login) are known, so the level-2 rate // limit is enforced here: over the limit, the message is refused with a 4xx // tempfail before recipients are even offered (guide § Rate limiting). // Enforcement is fail-open — see overLimit. // // The client address is read again here, from the {client_addr} macro. The // milter library replaces the session with a new one after every reply that is // not "continue" - a refusal, or the accept that used to end a message - and // Postfix does not send Connect again on the same connection. A session made // that way never saw the client, so every message of a connection after the // first, and every MAIL FROM after a refused one, used to be judged with no // client address: the level-2 limit and an application's client-address list // both let it through. (Found on 2026-10-12; test/e2e sends two MAIL FROM on // one connection.) // // go-milter v0.4.1, session.go, HandleMilterCommands(): after a reply whose // Continue() is false (response.go: accept, discard, reject, tempfail) the // backend is replaced by NewMilter(). Postfix 3.7.11, src/milter/milter8.c, // milter8_conn_event(): CONNECT goes once per milter connection. // {auth_authen}: src/smtpd/smtpd_milter.c, smtpd_milter_eval(), gives // state->sasl_username, null without authentication, and then milter.c, // milter_macro_lookup(), sends no such macro. // The tempfail: milter8.c, milter8_event(), SMFIR_TEMPFAIL is "451 4.7.1"; // src/smtpd/smtpd.c, mail_cmd(), replies it and calls mail_reset() - the // transaction ends, the connection goes on. func (s *session) MailFrom(from string, m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) { s.releaseReservations() // a previous transaction that ended without EOM/ABORT if ip := clientAddr(m); ip != "" { s.clientIP = ip } s.from = cleanAddress(from) s.login = macro(m, "auth_authen") s.rcpts = nil s.subject = "" if !s.authIPAllowed() { s.recordRejected(store.ReasonClient) return milter.RespTempFail, nil } if s.overLimit() { s.recordRejected(store.ReasonLimit) return milter.RespTempFail, nil } return milter.RespContinue, nil } // RcptTo records each recipient. Postfix calls this once per recipient, which // is what lets the journal keep a separate row per (queue-id, recipient). // // Postfix 3.7.11, src/smtpd/smtpd.c, rcpt_cmd(): milter_rcpt_event() once per // RCPT TO; a recipient Postfix refused goes only to a milter that asked for // SMFIP_RCPT_REJ, which Serve's Protocol does not. func (s *session) RcptTo(rcpt string, m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) { s.rcpts = append(s.rcpts, cleanAddress(rcpt)) return milter.RespContinue, nil } // Header captures the Subject. Only the first Subject header is kept. func (s *session) Header(name, value string, m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) { if s.subject == "" && textproto.CanonicalMIMEHeaderKey(name) == "Subject" { s.subject = mailhdr.DecodeSubject(value) } return milter.RespContinue, nil } // Body fires at end-of-message, when the queue-id macro {i} is set and the // message is about to be committed to the queue. This is where the "queued" // rows are written. The reply is "continue", which at end-of-message lets the // message through just as "accept" does - and, unlike it, leaves this session // in place for the connection's next message (see MailFrom). // // go-milter v0.4.1, session.go, case CodeEOB: Body(). Postfix 3.7.11, // src/global/mail_params.h: DEF_MILT_EOD_MACROS "i", which // src/cleanup/cleanup_milter.c, cleanup_milter_eval(), answers with the queue // id. src/milter/milter8.c, milter8_event(): SMFIR_CONTINUE returns the // milter's default reply, none, and the message goes on. func (s *session) Body(m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) { s.record(macro(m, "i")) // The rows are in the send log now, so the stored count sees this message // and its level-2 slots are no longer needed. s.releaseReservations() return milter.RespContinue, nil } // Abort ends the current transaction without an end-of-message (client RSET, or // Postfix rejecting the message for its own reasons). No send-log row will be // written, so the level-2 slots this message held must go back. // // Postfix 3.7.11, src/smtpd/smtpd.c: rset_cmd() and the refusals call // mail_reset(), which calls milter_abort() (src/milter/milter8.c, // milter8_abort(): SMFIC_ABORT); so do the end of every transaction and the // end of the session in smtpd_proto(). func (s *session) Abort(m *milter.Modifier) error { s.releaseReservations() s.rcpts = nil s.subject = "" return nil } // macro reads a milter macro, tolerating Postfix's convention of wrapping // multi-character macro names in curly braces (e.g. {auth_authen}) while // single-character names (e.g. i) arrive bare. go-milter stores whatever name // Postfix sends verbatim, so a lookup must try both forms. // // Postfix 3.7.11, src/milter/milter.c, milter_macro_lookup(): each name is // sent as milter_*_macros spells it. go-milter v0.4.1, session.go, case // CodeMacro: m.macros[name] = value, the name as received. func macro(m *milter.Modifier, name string) string { if v, ok := m.Macros[name]; ok { return v } return m.Macros["{"+name+"}"] } // clientAddr is the client's address from the {client_addr} macro, or "" when // Postfix did not send one that reads as an address. An IPv6 address may come // in Sendmail's form, with "IPv6:" in front. // // Postfix 3.7.11, src/smtpd/smtpd_peer.c, smtpd_peer_sockaddr_to_hostaddr(): // rfc_addr is the dotted quad, "IPv6:" + the address for IPv6, a V4-mapped // address rewritten to IPv4, or "unknown". func clientAddr(m *milter.Modifier) string { raw := strings.TrimSpace(macro(m, "client_addr")) if len(raw) > 5 && strings.EqualFold(raw[:5], "IPv6:") { raw = raw[5:] } ip := net.ParseIP(raw) if ip == nil { return "" } return ip.String() } // record writes one send-log row per recipient. Failures are logged, never // propagated: journalling must not affect mail acceptance (architecture.md § // Mail path). func (s *session) record(queueID string) { domain := domainOf(s.from) rcpts := s.rcpts if len(rcpts) == 0 { // No recipient seen (unusual) — still record the message so it is // visible in the log rather than silently dropped. rcpts = []string{""} } for _, to := range rcpts { err := s.rec.InsertQueued(store.SendLogEntry{ QueueID: queueID, Domain: domain, AppLogin: s.login, From: s.from, To: to, Subject: s.subject, }) if err != nil { log.Printf("journal-milter: record %s -> %s: %v", queueID, to, err) } } } // cleanAddress strips the angle brackets and any ESMTP parameters Postfix may // pass with an address, leaving the bare mailbox. A bracketed address ends at // the first ">" outside a quoted local part: a quoted local part may hold a // space or a ">", and an address cut there matched no delivery line, so its // row was left for the reconcile sweep to close as bounced (review of audit // stage 1). func cleanAddress(a string) string { a = strings.TrimSpace(a) if strings.HasPrefix(a, "<") { quoted := false for i := 1; i < len(a); i++ { switch a[i] { case '\\': if quoted { i++ // the escaped character is part of the local part } case '"': quoted = !quoted case '>': if !quoted { return a[1:i] } } } } if i := strings.IndexByte(a, ' '); i >= 0 { // drop "addr SIZE=… BODY=…" params a = a[:i] } a = strings.TrimPrefix(a, "<") a = strings.TrimSuffix(a, ">") return a } // domainOf returns the lower-cased domain of an email address, or "" if there // is no domain part. Sender binding guarantees the From domain equals the // application's domain, so this is the sending domain (architecture.md § Mail // path). func domainOf(addr string) string { if i := strings.LastIndexByte(addr, '@'); i >= 0 { return strings.ToLower(addr[i+1:]) } return "" } // Serve runs the journal-milter on ln until ctx is cancelled. Each connection // gets a fresh session bound to rec. It returns nil on a clean shutdown. // // go-milter v0.4.1, server.go: Close() closes the listener and Serve() then // returns ErrServerClosed. Postfix 3.7.11, src/milter/milter8.c, // milter8_message(): SMFIP_NOBODY leaves out only the body chunks - headers, // end-of-headers and end-of-body (milter8_eob()) still go; milter8_event() // takes a reply code (SMFIR_REPLYCODE) whatever the action mask. func Serve(ctx context.Context, ln net.Listener, rec Store) error { flight := &inflight{} // shared: the level-2 window spans all connections srv := &milter.Server{ NewMilter: func() milter.Milter { return &session{rec: rec, flight: flight} }, Actions: 0, // read-only: we make no message modifications Protocol: milter.OptNoBody, // the journal needs headers/EOM, not the body } go func() { <-ctx.Done() _ = srv.Close() }() if err := srv.Serve(ln); err != nil { if ctx.Err() != nil { return nil // expected: Close() during shutdown unblocks Serve } return err } return nil }