package postfix import ( "bytes" "context" "fmt" "os/exec" "regexp" "strings" "time" ) const postqueueTimeout = 5 * time.Second // maxQueueOutput bounds how much of `postqueue -p` the panel keeps. A deferred // queue with a very large backlog prints one paragraph per message, and the // whole listing is held in memory and then rendered into a page — so the read // is capped and the remainder reported as truncated rather than being allowed // to size the panel's memory by the size of the queue. const maxQueueOutput = 4 << 20 // limitWriter keeps the first remaining bytes written to it and drops the rest, // recording that it did. Writes always report full consumption so postqueue is // never killed by a short write; the extra output is simply discarded. type limitWriter struct { buf bytes.Buffer remaining int truncated bool } func (l *limitWriter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) { keep := len(p) if keep > l.remaining { keep = l.remaining l.truncated = true } if keep > 0 { l.buf.Write(p[:keep]) l.remaining -= keep } return len(p), nil } // postqueueP builds the `postqueue -p` command. It is a var so tests can put // a fake postqueue in its place, the way readQueueJSON is. var postqueueP = func(ctx context.Context) *exec.Cmd { // A single fixed flag and no user input, never through a shell (security.md). return exec.CommandContext(ctx, "postqueue", "-p") } // listQueue runs `postqueue -p` and keeps at most maxQueueOutput bytes of it; // truncated says whether there was more. func listQueue() (text string, truncated bool, err error) { ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), postqueueTimeout) defer cancel() cmd := postqueueP(ctx) out := &limitWriter{remaining: maxQueueOutput} cmd.Stdout = out cmd.Stderr = out err = cmd.Run() if ctx.Err() == context.DeadlineExceeded { return "", false, fmt.Errorf("postqueue -p timed out after %s", postqueueTimeout) } if err != nil { return "", false, fmt.Errorf("postqueue -p: %w: %s", err, strings.TrimSpace(out.buf.String())) } return out.buf.String(), out.truncated, nil } // Queue returns Postfix's own human-readable mail-queue listing // (architecture.md § Panel HTTP surface): active, deferred and held messages, // exactly as an administrator would see via the CLI. The panel is responsible // for escaping the output before display (security.md); this function returns // it as-is. A listing over the size cap is shown cut, with a note saying so. func Queue() (string, error) { text, truncated, err := listQueue() if err != nil { return "", err } if truncated { text += fmt.Sprintf("\n[listing truncated at %d bytes]\n", maxQueueOutput) } return text, nil } // QueueIDs returns the set of queue ids Postfix is still holding — everything // in the maildrop, incoming, active, deferred and hold queues. It answers the // one question the log-tailer's reconcile sweep asks about a send-log row stuck // at "queued": is Postfix still working on this message, or has it left the // queue without the panel ever seeing a delivery line for it (architecture.md § // Log tailer)? // // An error means the queue could not be listed and therefore says nothing about // any message; the caller must treat it as "no information", never as an empty // queue. A listing cut at the size cap is such an error: the messages past the // cut are still in the queue, and a backlog that large is the outage the sweep // exists for (audit 2026-10-12, H3). QueueMessages treats its cap the same way. func QueueIDs() (map[string]struct{}, error) { out, truncated, err := listQueue() if err != nil { return nil, err } if truncated { return nil, fmt.Errorf("postqueue -p: listing is larger than %d bytes", maxQueueOutput) } return parseQueueIDs(out), nil } // queueEntryRe matches the first line of a `postqueue -p` entry, e.g. // // 3C5B04E6C1* 446 Thu Aug 7 10:12:31 app@example.com // // The id is at the start of the line, optionally flagged '*' (in the active // queue) or '!' (on hold), and is followed by the message size. Requiring the // size is what separates an entry from the listing's other left-margin lines: // the '-Queue ID-' header, the '-- 5 Kbytes in 2 Requests.' trailer, a deferred // entry's '(connect timed out)' reason, and 'Mail queue is empty'. Recipient // lines are indented and never match. var queueEntryRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^([0-9A-Za-z]+)[*!]?\s+\d+\s`) func parseQueueIDs(listing string) map[string]struct{} { ids := make(map[string]struct{}) for _, line := range strings.Split(listing, "\n") { if m := queueEntryRe.FindStringSubmatch(line); m != nil { ids[m[1]] = struct{}{} } } return ids }