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selfpost/internal/milter/sender.go
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mixandClaude Opus 5.5 c171fb5bc7
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from-header-binding: the sender check, what it costs, its pages; guide, architecture, security
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

400 lines
12 KiB
Go

package milter
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"log"
"net"
"net/mail"
"net/textproto"
"os"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
"github.com/emersion/go-milter"
"github.com/mixeme/selfpost/internal/mailhdr"
"github.com/mixeme/selfpost/internal/store"
)
// The sender check: a message's From: line is held against the application
// that sends it, under the rule Postfix holds the envelope sender to
// (docs/plans/from-header-binding.md). OpenDKIM chooses the signing key by
// that line, so without the check an application could have mail signed as
// another domain of the server, or as the server itself.
//
// Unlike the journal milter this one is attached strictly
// (default_action=tempfail in build/postfix-config.sh): while it does not
// answer, Postfix defers mail. It therefore depends on as little as it can.
// It reads no database: what an application may send as comes from the file
// of sender bindings Postfix itself reads for the envelope, so the two cannot
// disagree. The send-log row of a refusal is written by another goroutine and
// is not waited for.
// tableFile is a table of the mail path that the panel rewrites and the check
// reads: it is read again when it has changed. An unreadable file is an error
// and the check then defers mail - a table from before would let a deleted
// application go on sending, and no table would refuse everyone for good.
type tableFile struct {
path string
modTime time.Time
size int64
loaded bool
}
// changed returns the file's lines when they have to be read (again), and
// nil when what was read last still stands.
func (f *tableFile) changed() (lines []string, again bool, err error) {
fi, err := os.Stat(f.path)
if err != nil {
return nil, false, err
}
if f.loaded && fi.ModTime().Equal(f.modTime) && fi.Size() == f.size {
return nil, false, nil
}
raw, err := os.ReadFile(f.path)
if err != nil {
return nil, false, err
}
f.modTime, f.size, f.loaded = fi.ModTime(), fi.Size(), true
return strings.Split(string(raw), "\n"), true, nil
}
// Bindings is Postfix's sender_login_maps file as the check reads it: each
// sender - an address, or "@domain" for any address of a domain - with the
// logins that may use it.
type Bindings struct {
mu sync.Mutex
file tableFile
logins map[string]map[string]bool // sender -> logins
}
// NewBindings reads the file at path on first use.
func NewBindings(path string) *Bindings {
return &Bindings{file: tableFile{path: path}}
}
// fresh makes the table match the file.
func (b *Bindings) fresh() error {
lines, again, err := b.file.changed()
if err != nil || !again {
return err
}
logins := make(map[string]map[string]bool)
for _, line := range lines {
// texthash: <key><whitespace><value>, the value a comma-separated
// list of logins (internal/postfix renderSenderLoginMaps).
fields := strings.Fields(line)
if len(fields) < 2 || strings.HasPrefix(fields[0], "#") {
continue
}
sender := strings.ToLower(fields[0])
set := logins[sender]
if set == nil {
set = make(map[string]bool)
logins[sender] = set
}
for _, l := range strings.Split(strings.Join(fields[1:], ""), ",") {
if l != "" {
set[l] = true
}
}
}
b.logins = logins
return nil
}
// Allowed reports whether login may send as addr: the address itself is bound
// to it, or its whole domain is. This is the lookup Postfix makes for the
// envelope sender.
func (b *Bindings) Allowed(login, addr string) (bool, error) {
b.mu.Lock()
defer b.mu.Unlock()
if err := b.fresh(); err != nil {
return false, err
}
addr = strings.ToLower(addr)
if b.logins[addr][login] {
return true, nil
}
if d := domainOf(addr); d != "" && b.logins["@"+d][login] {
return true, nil
}
return false, nil
}
// Signers is OpenDKIM's SigningTable as the check reads it: the names this
// server signs for - every sending domain, with applications or without, and
// the server's own name.
type Signers struct {
mu sync.Mutex
file tableFile
names map[string]bool
}
// NewSigners reads the file at path on first use.
func NewSigners(path string) *Signers {
return &Signers{file: tableFile{path: path}}
}
// Signs reports whether mail whose From: is at domain gets a signature.
func (s *Signers) Signs(domain string) (bool, error) {
s.mu.Lock()
defer s.mu.Unlock()
lines, again, err := s.file.changed()
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
if again {
names := make(map[string]bool)
for _, line := range lines {
// "*@<name> <key name>" (internal/domain renderTables).
fields := strings.Fields(line)
if len(fields) < 2 || strings.HasPrefix(fields[0], "#") {
continue
}
if d := domainOf(fields[0]); d != "" {
names[d] = true
}
}
s.names = names
}
return s.names[strings.ToLower(domain)], nil
}
// Refusals is where the check leaves the send-log rows of what it refused.
// *store.Store satisfies it.
type Refusals interface {
InsertRejected(e store.SendLogEntry) error
}
// senderSession is one connection of the sender check.
type senderSession struct {
milter.NoOpMilter
bind *Bindings
signers *Signers
refused chan<- store.SendLogEntry
login string
from string
rcpts []string
subject string
froms []string // the value of every From: field of the message
}
// MailFrom starts a message. Like the journal milter it reads everything of a
// message again here: the library replaces the session after a refusal.
func (s *senderSession) MailFrom(from string, m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) {
s.from = cleanAddress(from)
s.login = macro(m, "auth_authen")
s.rcpts, s.subject, s.froms = nil, "", nil
return milter.RespContinue, nil
}
func (s *senderSession) RcptTo(rcpt string, m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) {
s.rcpts = append(s.rcpts, cleanAddress(rcpt))
return milter.RespContinue, nil
}
func (s *senderSession) Header(name, value string, m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) {
// The name is trimmed: the obsolete syntax allows blanks before the colon.
switch textproto.CanonicalMIMEHeaderKey(strings.TrimSpace(name)) {
case "From":
s.froms = append(s.froms, value)
case "Subject":
if s.subject == "" {
s.subject = mailhdr.DecodeSubject(value)
}
}
return milter.RespContinue, nil
}
// Headers is the end of the headers, where the message is judged.
func (s *senderSession) Headers(h textproto.MIMEHeader, m *milter.Modifier) (milter.Response, error) {
shown, why, err := s.judge()
if err != nil {
// Strict: what cannot be checked is not let through.
log.Printf("sender-check: %v - deferring mail of %q", err, s.login)
return milter.RespTempFail, nil
}
if why == "" {
return milter.RespContinue, nil
}
log.Printf("sender-check: application %q refused: %s (From: %s)", s.login, why, shown)
s.record(shown)
// A reply code of its own, so that the application is told what is wrong
// and, the refusal being permanent, does not send the message again.
return milter.NewResponseStr('y', "550 5.7.1 From: "+shown+" - "+why), nil
}
func (s *senderSession) Abort(m *milter.Modifier) error {
s.rcpts, s.subject, s.froms = nil, "", nil
return nil
}
// judge decides about the message at hand. why is empty when it may pass;
// otherwise it says what is wrong, and shown is the From: line in a form that
// is safe to print - both go into the reply to the client.
func (s *senderSession) judge() (shown, why string, err error) {
if s.login == "" {
// Not reachable while the submission ports demand authentication; a
// message nobody answers for is not signed either way.
return "(none)", "no authenticated application", nil
}
switch len(s.froms) {
case 0:
return "(none)", "the message has no From: line", nil
case 1:
default:
return printable(strings.Join(s.froms, " | ")), "the message has more than one From: line", nil
}
raw := s.froms[0]
shown = printable(raw)
list, perr := mail.ParseAddressList(raw)
if perr != nil || len(list) != 1 || list[0].Address == "" {
return shown, "it must be one address", nil
}
addr := strings.ToLower(list[0].Address)
shown = printable(addr)
ok, err := s.bind.Allowed(s.login, addr)
if err != nil {
return shown, "", fmt.Errorf("sender bindings: %w", err)
}
if !ok {
return shown, "not an address this application sends as", nil
}
// A cruder second look. OpenDKIM finds the address in this line with a
// parser of its own, and the key it signs with follows what that parser
// finds. Wherever the two could read the line differently - a display
// name, a comment, a quoted string - the other address would have to be
// spelled out in it, so no other name this server signs for may appear.
own := domainOf(addr)
for _, d := range mentionedDomains(raw) {
if d == own {
continue
}
signs, err := s.signers.Signs(d)
if err != nil {
return shown, "", fmt.Errorf("signing table: %w", err)
}
if signs {
return printable(raw), "it names another sender of this server, " + d, nil
}
}
return shown, "", nil
}
// record leaves a row per recipient for the Outbound log. It never waits: a
// database that is slow must not make the check slow.
func (s *senderSession) record(shown string) {
if s.refused == nil {
return
}
rcpts := s.rcpts
if len(rcpts) == 0 {
rcpts = []string{""}
}
for _, to := range rcpts {
e := store.SendLogEntry{
Domain: domainOf(s.from),
AppLogin: s.login,
From: s.from,
To: to,
Subject: s.subject,
Reason: store.ReasonFrom,
HeaderFrom: shown,
}
select {
case s.refused <- e:
default:
log.Printf("sender-check: the refusal of %s -> %s is not in the log: too many are waiting to be written", s.from, to)
}
}
}
// mentionedDomains returns, lower-cased, what follows every "@" of v as far
// as it reads as a host name.
func mentionedDomains(v string) []string {
var out []string
for i := 0; i < len(v); i++ {
if v[i] != '@' {
continue
}
j := i + 1
for j < len(v) && isHostByte(v[j]) {
j++
}
if d := strings.Trim(strings.ToLower(v[i+1:j]), ".-"); d != "" {
out = append(out, d)
}
}
return out
}
func isHostByte(c byte) bool {
return c >= 'a' && c <= 'z' || c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z' || c >= '0' && c <= '9' || c == '.' || c == '-'
}
// printable reduces what a client wrote to printable ASCII without the
// characters that mean something in an SMTP reply or a log line, and cuts it:
// it is said back to the client, logged and stored.
func printable(v string) string {
const max = 120
var sb strings.Builder
for _, r := range v {
if sb.Len() >= max {
sb.WriteString("...")
break
}
switch {
case r == '%' || r < 0x20 || r > 0x7e:
sb.WriteByte('?')
default:
sb.WriteRune(r)
}
}
return strings.TrimSpace(sb.String())
}
// ServeSender runs the sender check on ln until ctx is cancelled. rec may be
// nil: refusals are then not logged.
func ServeSender(ctx context.Context, ln net.Listener, bind *Bindings, signers *Signers, rec Refusals) error {
var refused chan store.SendLogEntry
if rec != nil {
refused = make(chan store.SendLogEntry, 256)
go func() {
for {
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
return
case e := <-refused:
if err := rec.InsertRejected(e); err != nil {
log.Printf("sender-check: record refused %s: %v", e.From, err)
}
}
}
}()
}
srv := &milter.Server{
NewMilter: func() milter.Milter {
return &senderSession{bind: bind, signers: signers, refused: refused}
},
Actions: 0, // read-only
Protocol: milter.OptNoBody, // the headers decide
}
go func() {
<-ctx.Done()
_ = srv.Close()
}()
if err := srv.Serve(ln); err != nil {
if ctx.Err() != nil {
return nil
}
return err
}
return nil
}