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Discussed on 2026-10-12, one question at a time; still a candidate. plans/panel-notifications.md records the answers: - Four events in the first version: a domain's DNS record stops matching, a level-2 limit refuses mail, the certificate is about to expire, a message is in the queue for more than three days (his number; the roadmap said one). - From postmaster@<hostname>, not from a sending domain: with several the choice is arbitrary, and a certificate is no domain's subject. An SPF record for the hostname makes such mail pass; Server > Health will check it. - One checkbox per user instead of a choice per event; one instance switch. - Hourly checks; a DNS mismatch is sent after two checks in a row; "cleared" messages for DNS and the queue only; certificate at 14 and 3 days; a limit at most once a day. roadmap.md follows, and no longer says the screens are drawn: the box was taken out of the mockups on 2026-10-10. Docs only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Plan: panel-notifications
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**Status:** candidate - the design questions are closed with the owner (2026-10-12); taking it into work still needs his word
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**Date:** 2026-10-12
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**Version:** `2.3.0` MINOR (one migration; opt-out by a switch).
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---
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## Goal
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The panel writes to its administrators when something needs them, instead of
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waiting to be opened.
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## Decisions (owner, 2026-10-12)
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### Events of the first version
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Four, each of them something the panel can already tell and a person has to
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act on:
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| Event | Who is told |
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| A sending domain's DNS record stopped matching (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) | global users, and `domain` users the domain is assigned to |
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| A level-2 rate limit refused mail | the same, for the domain of the limit |
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| The TLS certificate is about to expire | global users |
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| A message has been in the queue for more than **three days** | global users |
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Three days, not one (owner: "one day is not that much"): Postfix keeps a
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message five, so two are left to act before it bounces. The threshold is a
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constant, not a setting.
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Left for later: a process or milter socket down (a relay in that state often
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cannot send), an inbound upstream unreachable, DMARC failures appearing
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(noisy). Mail held in quarantine is not an event: quarantine is an idea
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outside the roadmap.
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### Sender and path
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From `postmaster@<SELFPOST_HOSTNAME>`, submitted locally. Not from one of the
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sending domains (owner): with several domains the choice is arbitrary, and a
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message about the certificate has no business coming from a domain.
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The server's name usually has no DKIM key. One DNS record is enough for such
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mail to pass SPF and DMARC on the name itself: `v=spf1 a -all` for the
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hostname. Server › Health gains that check next to reverse DNS, and the guide
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describes it. Without the record notifications are still sent.
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Notifications are the panel's own mail: they are not rows of the Outbound log
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and count against no level-2 limit.
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A relay that cannot send cannot say so; none of the four events is "the relay
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is down", and that is why.
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### Who chooses what
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- One switch for the instance under **Server › Settings**.
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- One checkbox per user under **Account**, "send me notifications" - on when
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the profile has an e-mail. No choice per event: four events, none of them
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noise. Per-event choice comes when there are more and some are.
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- A user without an e-mail gets nothing.
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### When a message is sent
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A background check once an hour for DNS, certificate and queue.
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| Event | Sent | "Cleared" message |
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| DNS mismatch | after two checks in a row found it (it has held for an hour). A resolver that did not answer is not a mismatch | after two good checks in a row |
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| Certificate | 14 days before expiry, and again 3 days before if it is still the same certificate | none |
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| Level-2 limit refused mail | at the first refusal for a domain or application, then at most once a day for the same limit | none |
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| Queue older than three days | when such a message appears | one, when none is left |
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Event state is kept in the database, so a restart announces nothing a second
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time.
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## To settle while building
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- How the panel submits: `sendmail` as the unprivileged panel user, and what
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that needs of the image.
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- Whether a notification carries a link to the panel - there is no setting
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for the panel's own address.
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- Where the refusal of a level-2 limit is noticed: in the journal milter as
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it refuses, or from the `rejected` rows of the send log on the hourly check.
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- Schema: the user's checkbox, the instance switch, the event state table.
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## Screens
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Not drawn. The Notifications box was taken out of the `account` and
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`settings` mockups on 2026-10-10 (owner: 2.0 ships no box for a feature that
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is not built). Drawing them again - one checkbox on Account, one switch on
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Server › Settings, the SPF check on Server › Health - is the first step, shown
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to the owner before any code ([panel-redesign.md](panel-redesign.md)
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§ Enforcement).
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## Implementation checklist (draft; counted from the day the item is agreed)
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- [ ] Mockups: Account checkbox, Settings switch, Health SPF check, help topic; accepted by the owner (`design:` commit)
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- [ ] Migration and store: user flag, instance switch, event state
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- [ ] Sending: local submission from `postmaster@<hostname>`, message text
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- [ ] Background checker: DNS, certificate, queue; the rules of *When a message is sent*
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- [ ] Level-2 refusal event
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- [ ] Panel: Account, Settings, Health check, help
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- [ ] guide.md, architecture.md, security.md, schema-migrations.md
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- [ ] `go vet`, `go test`, e2e: an event reaches a mailbox once and clears once
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- [ ] Technical review
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- [ ] Security review
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