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.
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The mail screens had no backend at all: they rendered a hardcoded array,
and the storage service that ADR-001 assigned this to is still a health
stub. The API lands here instead, because the folder, UID, MODSEQ, flag
and blob logic already exists and is tested in this service for IMAP.
Reimplementing it in TypeScript would mean two implementations of the
same semantics and two chances to disagree about what a UID means.
Reads use a projected read model rather than hydrated aggregates, which
is the CQRS exception PLAN.md section 2 carves out for webmail queries.
Every query is scoped to the mailbox resolved from the verified session,
never to an identifier taken from the request, so one account cannot read
another's mail by guessing a UID - covered by a test that tries exactly
that and expects 404.
Sending reuses ProcessOutboundEmailUseCase, so mail written in the browser
gets the same treatment as mail submitted over 587: send limits, DKIM
signing, and the durable queue. The From address comes from the session
and never from the request body; letting the body choose it is how a
webmail becomes a relay for spoofed mail.
MIME is parsed server-side because this service already depends on a MIME
library. A message that will not parse still returns its raw text - an
unreadable message beats an inbox that refuses to open one.
Marking a message read updates the flag and the folder counter in one
transaction, and only on a real transition, so re-opening a message cannot
drive unread_count negative.
Verified against the running stack: a message delivered over port 25
appears in the list with its decoded subject and sender, opens, marks
itself read, is found by search, and a message composed in the webmail
reaches outbound_jobs with the session's address as the envelope sender.
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"docker compose up" could not work, which means the F0 acceptance
criterion was not being met:
- ghcr.io/rspamd/rspamd:3.9 returns "denied" and clamav/clamav:1.3 does
not exist. Both were verified against the registries; the working
references are rspamd/rspamd:3.9 and clamav/clamav:1.4.
- Rspamd received RSPAMD_REDIS_SERVERS and RSPAMD_REDIS_PASSWORD as
environment variables it never reads. Confirmed in the container that
it does not expand ${VAR} in UCL: the password reached Redis as that
literal string. Greylisting and ratelimit keep their state in Redis,
so both were silently doing nothing while appearing configured. The
credential is now rendered at startup into override.d, a tmpfs, so it
touches neither the image nor a volume.
- The ratelimit module ships enabled with no rates defined, which
accepts everything. ratelimit.conf defines the per-IP, per-user and
per-recipient buckets of section 5.2.
Verified by bringing redis and rspamd up: the real password resolves, the
rates load, and a probe message returns "Action: greylist" with the state
written to Redis.
Services also gained an image: alongside build:, so the deploy host pulls
instead of compiling while "docker compose build" still works locally.
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Adds a real :143 IMAP listener to the Go protocols service: a mailbox
owner authenticates over IMAP (Argon2id against mailboxes.password_hash,
enumeration-resistant per PLAN.md section 14.6), lists folders, selects
INBOX, fetches messages F1's SMTP path already persisted - including real
ENVELOPE/BODY[] built from the actual stored MIME bytes via go-imap/v2's
own ExtractEnvelope/ExtractBodySection helpers, not reconstructed from
denormalized columns - and sets/reads flags via STORE.
- ImapSessionUseCase orchestrates auth, folder listing/selection, message
querying, and flag mutation against new Postgres repositories (auth,
folders, message query, flags) and a local-disk blob reader.
- A github.com/emersion/go-imap/v2 (pinned v2.0.0-beta.8) Backend/Session
implements 7 real methods (Login, List, Select, Unselect, Status, Fetch,
Store) plus a correct no-op Poll; the other 10 of the interface's 18
methods (Create/Delete/Rename/Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Append/Idle/Expunge/
Search/Copy) are explicit stubs returning a clear "not yet implemented"
IMAP error - SEARCH/EXPUNGE/COPY/MOVE, IDLE/CONDSTORE, mailbox
management, and APPEND are separate follow-up sub-projects per the
design doc's agreed ordering with the user.
Verified end-to-end with a real go-imap/v2 imapclient (embedded Postgres,
no Docker needed) driving Login -> Select -> Fetch -> Store -> List
against a message seeded through F1's real SMTP use case, proving true
SMTP-write/IMAP-read interop, not just isolated unit tests.
Built via 8 sequential tasks under subagent-driven development, each
independently reviewed, plus a final whole-branch review. Two real bugs
were found and fixed before merge, both exactly the kind unit tests with
fakes cannot catch:
- Store's UID-set resolution silently no-op'd on dynamic ranges like
"UID STORE 1:*" (the common "mark all as read" operation) after an
earlier draft bypassed the folder's real message list; restored to
resolve against real messages via the same pattern Fetch already used
correctly, with tests proving both dynamic ranges and non-UID STORE.
- go-imap/v2's server calls Session.Poll() implicitly before the status
response of nearly every authenticated command (FETCH/STORE/SEARCH/
APPEND/COPY), not just IDLE as assumed - a hard-stubbed Poll broke every
real command through this path; fixed to a correct no-op.
- List had zero test coverage despite being committed scope; added unit
tests for wildcard/delimiter matching plus a real E2E LIST assertion.
Known follow-up, not blocking: a pre-existing test-fixture hygiene gap
(hardcoded content_sha256 blob hashes with no cleanup, shared across
several Postgres integration test files including one new to this
branch) causes local-dev test collisions on repeated runs against a
persistent database - invisible to CI (fresh Postgres per run) but worth
a cleanup pass.
Adds a real :25 SMTP listener to the Go protocols service, giving F1's
"Nucleo SMTP" milestone its first working sub-project: application,
infrastructure, and presentation layers on top of F0's domain-only
Clean Architecture.
- ProcessInboundEmailUseCase resolves recipients against Postgres and
persists accepted mail (blob dedup by content hash, transactional
UID allocation + outbox event, never sending 250 OK before durable
commit per PLAN.md section 6.1).
- Postgres repositories via pgx/v5 (replacing lib/pq entirely).
- Local-disk blob storage with content-hash dedup, rename-before-commit
ordering so a DB row can never reference a file that isn't actually
on disk.
- A local-file TLS cert provider for STARTTLS, with an ephemeral
self-signed fallback so a missing/misconfigured cert degrades
gracefully instead of crash-looping the service (PLAN.md section 8.4).
- A github.com/emersion/go-smtp Backend/Session adapting real SMTP
traffic to the use case: unknown recipients get 550 5.1.1 before
DATA, duplicate RCPT TO for the same address is deduplicated, TLS is
hardened to the project's required PFS-only cipher/curve policy.
- A dev-seed script and Makefile target for local testing.
Explicitly out of scope (separate follow-up sub-projects): alias
resolution, SPF/DKIM/DMARC/ARC verification, Rspamd/ClamAV, Submission
ports with SASL auth, DKIM signing, outbound delivery, and the real
Traefik acme.json cert watcher.
Verified live end-to-end via WSL Docker: the full compose stack (db,
redis, migrate, auth, storage, protocols, web) reaches healthy, and a
real swaks SMTP session is accepted and durably persisted with correct
sequential UIDs, while an unknown recipient is correctly rejected with
550 5.1.1 and zero rows persisted. Built via 10 sequential tasks under
subagent-driven development, each independently reviewed, plus a final
whole-branch review that caught and fixed a TLS-crash bug, a blob
commit-ordering bug, missing TLS hardening, and missing CI integration
coverage before merge.
Known follow-up, not blocking: email_messages' partition only covers
July 2026 and needs a partition-management job before 2026-08-01.
Verified live via WSL Docker (docker compose up --wait): every other F0
service came up healthy, but web stayed unhealthy. Root cause was two
compounding issues, both invisible to static review:
1. Docker auto-sets HOSTNAME to the container ID; Next's standalone
server.js honors that env var and binds only to it instead of all
interfaces. Fixed by explicitly setting ENV HOSTNAME=0.0.0.0 in the
Dockerfile, after Docker's automatic assignment.
2. Even bound to 0.0.0.0 (IPv4), the healthcheck's `wget http://localhost`
resolved localhost to ::1 (IPv6) first inside the container, where
nothing was listening. Fixed by pointing the healthcheck at
127.0.0.1 explicitly instead of localhost.
Full stack (db, redis, migrate, auth, storage, protocols, web) now
reaches healthy end-to-end under docker compose up --wait.
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.
