Three things stood between this and a real deployment.
A missing JWT_SECRET fell back to a constant that is published in this
repository, so any deployment that forgot the variable would have accepted
session tokens anyone could mint, including an admin one. The auth service
now refuses to start without a secret of at least 32 characters. The test
suites set it through vitest config, because ESM hoists imports and an
assignment inside a test file runs too late.
Session cookies were issued without the Secure attribute: it is driven by
NODE_ENV, which compose never set. Behind a TLS terminator that is a
downgrade waiting to happen.
Nothing created the first mailbox. A fresh install has no domain and no
account, and every route into the console needs one - so there was no
first login. There is now a create-admin command, which also provisions
the standard folders and the four system aliases. It is a deliberate
command rather than a bootstrap on boot: creating an administrator as a
side effect of starting a container is how a deleted account quietly comes
back.
Also: the production images were shipping compiled test files, since the
build compiled everything under src. A separate build config excludes
them while lint still type-checks them.
Documentation. README.md covers what this is, how it is put together, and
what is not finished - stated plainly, because a mail server that half
works loses mail. docs/DEPLOYMENT.md is the Coolify path in the order it
has to happen, starting with the three prerequisites no code can satisfy:
outbound port 25, the PTR record, and the DNSSEC delegation.
docs/OPERATIONS.md is the runbook - health states, certificates, backups,
reading a delivery failure, DKIM rotation, and an explicit list of what is
not automated. .env.production.example replaces guessing which of the dev
defaults are safe: none of them are.
docs/ was gitignored as a place for internal notes; only docs/internal/ is
now, so these guides ship with the code.
Every command the documentation tells an operator to run was executed
against a running stack: create-admin, preflight, the health endpoint, the
published mail ports, and the Secure cookie.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stands up the LambdaMail monorepo per PLAN.md's F0 milestone: local dev
scaffolding (.env.example, Makefile, .gitignore excluding PLAN.md/docs/
.superpowers/), the full initial Postgres schema as a golang-migrate
migration, the complete Go domain layer for services/protocols (value
objects, entities, domain events - zero external imports beyond
github.com/google/uuid) with unit tests, health-checked service skeletons
for auth/storage (TypeScript) and webmail (Next.js), a local
docker-compose.yaml wiring all services together, a language-enforcement
lint script, and a GitHub Actions CI workflow.
Built via 11 sequential tasks under subagent-driven development, each with
an independent implementer + reviewer cycle. Fixes applied during review:
DomainName.IsPunycode() added to satisfy the promised interface; ioredis
default-import typing under NodeNext; next.js bumped 15.0.3->15.5.21 to
resolve high/critical CVEs; lang-lint.mjs corrected to not flag its own
banned-terms list; web service healthcheck added so compose --wait
actually waits on it; webmail Dockerfile's missing public/ directory:
protocols go.mod version aligned with CI's Go 1.22 pin.
Known follow-ups for later phases (not blocking F0): go-arch-lint isn't
wired into CI yet; live docker compose up and migration apply have not
been exercised in this dev environment (no Docker/psql available here)
and will get their first real run in CI, which does have Docker.
