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docs: retire the code-review plan, its content now lives where it belongs
The review document was the last place several findings existed, so it could
not just be deleted. Everything still useful moved out first:

- roadmap items csrf-tokens, template-data-typing, structured-logging and
  review-2026-08-followups are now self-contained — each row names the file,
  the symptom and what "done" means, instead of pointing at a paragraph number
  in a plan file.
- security.md's CSRF accepted-risk bullet now names the csrf-tokens item, so
  the two records of that decision cannot drift apart unnoticed; the item says
  the same in the other direction.
- CHANGELOG [Unreleased] records the review itself in its intro rather than as
  an added file: the document was created and removed inside one unreleased
  cycle, so it never was part of a release.
- the declined finding (//go:build linux for the /proc reader) keeps its
  rationale in the roadmap so it is not raised again.

Also repaired three links to inbound-relay.md, deleted back when that feature's
plan was cleaned up: the two inbound plans now point at architecture.md § Mail
path for the as-built behaviour.

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Roadmap: open work (1.x+)

Status: a working tracker of extensions to the v1.0 boundary, each taken up only after explicit agreement (product.md, .cursor/rules/agent-rules.mdc). Detailed design lives in plans/. Items marked candidate need an OK before any code is written.

Reading this from outside the project: nothing here is a commitment or a release promise. There are no dates, the order is a recommendation rather than a schedule, and an item can be dropped or reshaped once its plan is written. What the project will not do is a separate question, answered in product.md — an item's absence from this file does not mean it is planned but unlisted.

Versioning: SemVer MINOR in the 1.x+ line by default (1.1.0…), as long as defaults and migrations stay compatible with 1.0.0. A major 2.x only for an explicit break. One such break, when 2.x is cut for any reason, is schema-squash — replacing the 1.x SQLite migration chain with a baseline. That item does not by itself justify a major.

Process: development.md. The history of closed phases is in git log and CHANGELOG.md.


Index

ID Topic Status Progress Plan
preflight Installation check page (/preflight) candidate — plans/preflight.md
contributing CONTRIBUTING.md candidate — —
inbound-antispam-panel Inbound antispam journal + allow/deny lists agreed 1/12 plans/inbound-antispam-panel.md
inbound-quarantine Inbound spam quarantine (hold / review / release) candidate — plans/inbound-quarantine.md
csrf-tokens Per-session CSRF tokens on state-changing forms candidate — —
template-data-typing Typed structs for template data instead of map[string]any candidate — —
structured-logging log/slog with levels and fields candidate — —
review-2026-08-followups Remaining findings of the 2026-08-19 code review candidate — —
schema-squash Squash SQLite migrations into a 2.x baseline 2.x — —

Recommended order (not binding): the next feature is inbound-antispam-panel (1.10.0). panel-docs shipped in CHANGELOG.md [1.8.0]; dmarc-reports in [1.7.0] (security review of the ingest path pending); domain-stats-auto-ratelimit in [1.6.0]; send-log-retention in [1.5.0]; inbound-relay in [1.4.0]; queue-retries in [1.3.1]; the 2026-08-13 full-tree review follow-ups are in [1.3.0]. Candidates need explicit agreement before they join the queue.

The 2026-08-19 full-tree code review is closed except for four items, all listed above and none of them urgent: csrf-tokens, template-data-typing, structured-logging and review-2026-08-followups. What that review produced is in CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased]; its own document was removed once these four items carried everything still open, and stays in git history.

After a context reset, pick an item marked agreed or in progress, then work the Implementation checklist in its linked plan. The Progress column above is done/total checklist steps in that plan (development.md § Plan checklists).


contributing

Goal: CONTRIBUTING.md in the root — the dev loop, the checks to run before a PR, the commit protocol; development.md links to it rather than repeating it.

Boundary: process documentation; worth writing once there is an external flow of PRs.

Done when: the file is in the root and development.md does not duplicate it.

Dependencies / risks: with a single developer and no PRs, this is low priority. Version: no bearing on semver.


panel-docs

Status: done — shipped in [1.8.0] (2026-08-18). The implementation plan file was removed as shipped cleanup; release details remain in CHANGELOG.md.

Goal: built-in operator documentation in the panel — short pages (or a help drawer) that explain what each Status check and other controls mean, without sending the operator out to docs/guide.md.

Boundary: in-panel help only; not a second copy of the full operator guide. Seed content includes the Status blurbs removed from the cards in favour of a denser layout — Machine (kernel counters / rate window), TLS certificate (port 465, reverse-proxy mount), Hostname / reverse DNS (forward-confirmed reverse DNS, PTR at the hosting provider), and similar notes for other panel surfaces as they lose inline commentary.

Done when: an operator can open help from the panel for those topics; the removed Status blurbs are preserved there (or equivalent); no requirement to read the git tree for day-to-day meaning of a card.

Dependencies / risks: copy ownership and translation; keeping help in sync when checks change; not bloating every page with a second column of prose.

Version: shipped 1.8.0.


inbound-antispam-panel

Goal: panel view of inbound anti-spam decisions (when, from, to, subject, action) plus editable allow/deny lists that tune the external filter — without shipping rspamd or another engine inside the image.

Boundary: metadata journal and list sync only; SelfPost does not run the filter (product.md). Quarantine: inbound-quarantine. Design closed in plans/inbound-antispam-panel.md § Decisions.

Done when: with inbound relay enabled, the operator sees journal rows (accepts via inbound-journal milter, rejects via mail.log tailer) and can maintain instance-wide allow/deny lists synced to rspamd maps when the antispam hook is set.

Dependencies / risks: inbound relay [1.4.0]; rspamd map/header coupling; journal PII; global-admin-only RBAC.

Version: 1.10.0 MINOR; agreed.


inbound-quarantine

Goal: optional hold for suspicious inbound mail — review in the panel, then release to upstream, discard, or tune lists. Design not settled.

Boundary: expands inbound from pure relay toward short-lived message storage; may conflict with "no mailboxes" in product.md until product explicitly agrees. Alternatives (rspamd-only quarantine vs SelfPost store) are listed in plans/inbound-quarantine.md.

Done when: TBD after open questions in the plan are answered.

Dependencies / risks: inbound relay [1.4.0]; storage/retention/backup size; malware in held MIME; overlap with inbound-antispam-panel. No implementation checklist yet.

Version: TBD; candidate until explicitly agreed.


preflight

Goal: a /preflight page (global-admin only) that verifies instance-level infrastructure: rDNS/PTR, TLS certificate + hostname match, port 25/465/587 reachability, HELO banner correctness, reverse-proxy headers, DKIM milter socket, and a test-email sender. Each check shows an actionable fix recommendation on failure.

Boundary: instance infrastructure only; per-domain DNS checks remain on domain detail pages. Does not track test-email delivery beyond local MTA acceptance.

Done when: the page loads, all checks run with traffic-light results and recommendations, and the test-email form successfully submits a message through Postfix.

Dependencies / risks: port-connectivity check may not reflect external reachability behind NAT without hairpin; test email needs at least one domain or falls back to postmaster@SELFPOST_HOSTNAME.

Version: 1.x MINOR; candidate.


csrf-tokens

Goal: a per-session CSRF token on every state-changing form, checked server-side in addition to the Sec-Fetch-Site / Origin check the panel relies on today (originAllowed in internal/web/security.go).

Boundary: defence in depth, not a replacement — the header check stays and keeps covering requests that carry no form. The token is bound to the existing session record; no new session model, no cookie changes.

Done when: every POST form and htmx fragment that changes state carries a token, a missing or mismatched token is refused with a test that proves it, and security.md describes the layered model in one place instead of two.

Dependencies / risks: security.md currently records the opposite decision — origin checking without tokens, with the accepted risk and its revisit triggers written out in the ADR § CSRF via origin checking. The 2026-08-19 review recorded "add tokens" without turning it into a task, which is why this item exists. Settle which decision stands before writing code; both outcomes are honest, and "keep headers" means deleting this item rather than leaving the contradiction standing. The work itself is a hidden field in roughly two dozen forms plus the htmx swap paths.

Version: 1.x MINOR; candidate.


template-data-typing

Goal: replace the map[string]any template payloads in internal/web/handlers with typed structs (DomainDetailData, SettingsData, ...), so a renamed or mistyped key is a compile error instead of a silently empty page section.

Boundary: handler-to-template plumbing only; no template redesign, no route or behaviour change. renderDomainDetail (handlers_apps.go) sets around forty keys on one map and is the case that motivates the item; roughly ten render sites still pass maps.

Done when: the page handlers pass structs, the shared footer/base fields (Version, Copyright, SourceURL) still arrive on every page, and the template guard tests pass unchanged.

Dependencies / risks: mechanical but wide — it touches every handlers_*.go and every template that reads those keys, and a missed key is invisible unless a test renders that page. Worth pairing with the handler tests in review-2026-08-followups so the pages are covered before they are rewired. Reviewer's estimate: 2–3 hours.

Version: no bearing on semver; candidate.


structured-logging

Goal: move from log.Printf to log/slog — levels, structured fields, and one logger injected through constructors, instead of the package-level logf = log.Printf alias repeated in five packages.

Boundary: internal logging only. The destination stays stdout/stderr under supervisord; no log shipping, no new dependency. Lines the panel's own Status page and log tailer depend on must keep parsing.

Done when: packages take a *slog.Logger, the per-package logf aliases are gone, and levels are used deliberately (an error is not an info).

Dependencies / risks: the log tailer reads Postfix's log rather than the panel's, so the blast radius is small — but anything that greps the panel's output (e2e assertions, operator habits) sees a new format. Reviewer's estimate: 3–4 hours.

Version: no bearing on semver; candidate.


review-2026-08-followups

Goal: the leftovers of the 2026-08-19 full-tree code review that are too small to be roadmap items of their own. Everything still open from that review is in the table below; the rest of it shipped in CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased].

Area Item
Security Re-authenticate (ask for the current password) before a backup download — handlers_backup.go hands the archive to any signed-in session
Tests The internal/dmarc service layer (service.go, addresses.go) has no tests
Tests No direct tests for the apps / domains / users / dmarc handlers; authz_test covers them only indirectly
Tests Nothing covers error page templates, a corrupted backup archive, malformed or oversized DMARC XML, delivery-log pagination edges, concurrent store operations, or zero-traffic store stats
Edge case internal/secretfile accepts an empty password at library level — guard it, or state that validation is the caller's job
Edge case The log fingerprint in logtail/offset.go can collide across a rotation — include the inode
Edge case parsePage in handlers_monitor.go does not clamp to lastPage
Edge case dnscheck/resolver.go fans out four parallel queries where a fallback chain would do — change it or write down why not
UI .pair (DMARC templates) and .split (every other page) are two names for one layout
UI Two back_link elements in a row in dmarc_domain.html
UI initShowWhen is not re-run after an htmx swap — safe today (no form arrives that way), fragile if one ever does

Boundary: no feature work and no behaviour change an operator would notice, apart from the backup re-auth prompt. Anything here that grows past an hour becomes its own roadmap item instead.

Done when: each row is either implemented or struck with a written reason.

Dependencies / risks: the test rows overlap template-data-typing — write the handler tests first if both are taken up. One finding of that review was declined and is deliberately absent: //go:build linux for the /proc reader in internal/health/machine.go. That code is parameterised by root directory, calls nothing platform-specific, already degrades gracefully when /proc is missing (TestMachineSamplerWithoutProc), and tagging it would only delete cross-platform test coverage.

Version: no bearing on semver; candidate.


schema-squash

Goal: when 2.x is cut, stop shipping the 1.x migration chain in the binary and replace it with one baseline equal to the schema at the then-current head. Fresh 2.x data directories no longer create-then-drop the historical admin table. Current chain, legacy notes, and gate thresholds: schema-migrations.md (update that file when migrations ship; adjust the squash gate to its head at cut time).

Boundary: 1.x keeps the full chain so a 1.0.0 data directory still boots. Do not delete, rename, or reorder migration files while MINOR compatibility with 1.0.0 holds. Git history keeps the old files either way; only the embedded set in the 2.x image changes.

Restore remains a separate lock: the backup manifest version must match the running binary (architecture.md § Persistence). It does not replace the squash upgrade gate.

Done when: 2.x embeds a single baseline (plus any 2.x-only migrations after it); the gate in schema-migrations.md is tested; the operator guide says a 2.x image will not open an unfinished 1.x database.

Dependencies / risks: a decided 2.x cut (another breaking change, or an explicit major). Squashing the current short chain is not a reason to cut 2.x on its own. A missed gate leaves a mid-chain 1.x database silently stuck. Version: 2.x major only; not a 1.x item.