The endpoint added in #32 lives on the protocols service, but the proxy only
forwarded admin/dkim and admin/tls there - so admin/dns went to the auth
service, which has no such route and answers 401 from its admin guard. The
console would have reported "not authorised" for a request that was simply
sent to the wrong process.
It survived my own check because an unauthenticated probe of a nonexistent
admin path returns 401 too: the guard runs before routing, so 401 proves
nothing about whether a route exists. Comparing against a path I knew was fake
is what exposed it.
The list is now named and commented, and a test asserts every protocols-owned
area appears in it, because the failure mode reads as a session problem rather
than a routing one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three things the console and the mail client were getting wrong.
**Sent stayed empty and drafts would not save.** Both write through the same
persistence path, and both failed on the same constraint: spf_result,
dkim_result and dmarc_result are restricted to the RFC verdict vocabulary and
are nullable, so "not evaluated" has to be NULL. The compose path left them at
Go's zero value, which sends an empty string - satisfying neither the CHECK nor
the meaning - and the insert was rejected. Filing the Sent copy is deliberately
non-fatal, so it failed silently; saving a draft reported the error. Inbound
mail was unaffected because it always supplies a real verdict, which is also
why the existing test never caught it.
**DNS reconciliation could not verify anything.** The console posted to the
auth service, which has no resolver, so the endpoint recorded the request and
re-read the status already in the database. The machinery to do it properly
already existed - the background reconciler resolves every expected record
through public resolvers - it just was not reachable from the console.
Adds GET /api/v1/admin/dns/verify to the protocols service, which owns both the
resolver and the record spec, and wires the domains screen to it: every
expected record, its expected value, and whether it actually resolves. A
proxied record is reported as present rather than matching, because behind a
proxy the published answer is the provider's address and comparing values would
always disagree. Reconciliation still runs afterwards so the stored status and
the audit trail stay in step.
The spec is read, never provisioned: opening a screen must not create DKIM keys
as a side effect.
Verified: the persistence test fails without the fix with the exact constraint
violation (email_messages_dkim_result_check), 22 Go packages and 36 webmail
tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Enrolling a second factor could reach a state where the authenticator showed
perfectly valid codes and every one of them was rejected, with the only
feedback being "TOTP verification failed".
The browser holds the enrolment secret in component state alone. Reloading the
settings page - or leaving and coming back - brought the "enable" button back,
and pressing it called the enrol endpoint again, which deleted the pending row
and stored a brand new secret. The entry already saved in the authenticator
then belonged to a secret the server no longer had. Nothing about that is
visible from either side: the app generates codes correctly, the server
compares them correctly, and they are for different keys.
Enrolment now resumes. The endpoint returns the pending secret if there is
one, so the QR shown after a reload is the same one already scanned and
rescanning is harmless. Starting over is still possible - ?reset=1, exposed in
the settings screen - because someone who deleted the entry from their app
needs a secret they can actually generate codes for. A pending row that can no
longer be decrypted is replaced rather than resumed, since nobody could ever
confirm it.
Also: the submitted code now has every non-digit stripped rather than just
surrounding whitespace. Authenticators display the code grouped as "123 456",
and a value typed or pasted with that space failed the six-character length
check before it was ever compared - which, to someone reading the right number
off their phone, looks like the server being wrong. The inputs sanitise as you
type for the same reason.
Ruled out first, rather than guessed at: the algorithm passes all six RFC 6238
reference vectors, base32 round-trips, and the deployment's clock is exactly in
sync with real time, so neither the implementation nor drift explains it.
Verified: the resume test fails without the change and passes with it; 47 auth
tests green against a real Postgres.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The autosave I had just added appended a new message on every debounce, so a
few minutes of typing would have left the Drafts folder holding a dozen copies
of the same unfinished mail. Caught before deploying.
The composer now returns the stored UID and sends it back as replace_uid on
the next save; the use case expunges the superseded draft, but only after the
replacement has committed, so a failure leaves the older draft in place rather
than losing both. Expunge is a soft delete matching the expunged_at column the
schema already uses, and it locates the message by mailbox as well as UID so a
caller cannot delete someone else's mail by guessing a number.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four faults, all in the path between the compose screen and the mailbox.
**Every message sent from the webmail had an empty body.** The HTTP handler
read a field named "body"; the composer has always sent "html". The two never
matched, so the payload handed to the queue contained headers and nothing
else. The handler now reads html and text, and still accepts body so an older
client is not broken. Sending was otherwise working, which is why this went
unnoticed: the mail left, it just said nothing.
**Bcc was discarded.** The field was absent from the request struct and from
ComposeInput, so a blind copy typed into the webmail reached nobody. It now
joins the envelope recipients and is deliberately kept out of the headers,
which is what makes it blind.
**HTML was labelled text/plain.** Even once the body was carried, the composer
produces markup and the message declared text/plain, so a recipient would see
raw tags. Messages with HTML now go out as multipart/alternative with a
plain-text part derived from the markup and ordered first per RFC 2046 5.1.4.
An empty or missing text alternative is itself a spam signal.
**Sent mail left no trace.** Nothing wrote to the Sent folder, so a delivered
message vanished from the sender's view entirely. A copy is now filed after
the message is durably queued - not before, or a send refused by the rate
limit would still leave a copy - reusing the inbound persistence path so it
gets a real IMAP UID and appears over IMAP too. A failure to file is logged
and swallowed: the mail is already on its way, and reporting failure would
invite the user to send it twice.
**Drafts were never saved.** There was no endpoint at all. The composer showed
"draft saved automatically" from a setTimeout with no request behind it, so
closing the tab lost the message the screen had just promised was safe. Adds
POST /api/v1/mail/draft, storing the draft as a whole RFC 5322 message in the
Drafts folder, and debounces the composer onto it.
The composer also navigated to Sent whether or not the send succeeded, which
is how a rejected message disappears silently. It now reports the error and
stays put.
**Delay notifications were being filed as spam.** A DSN this server writes is
injected through the same inbound path as mail from the internet, but without
a client IP - so SPF can only be "none" - and its bounce-shaped content scores
highly. The warning telling you your mail was delayed landed in your own Junk
folder. Messages the server generates itself now skip content scanning; the
exemption is narrow, and a test covers that ordinary mail is still scanned so
this cannot become a way past the filter. The DSN also declared
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied, which belongs to vacation responders; a delivery
report is auto-generated (RFC 3834 section 5), and filters read that header.
Not fixed here, because it is not a code fault: outbound port 25 is blocked by
the provider, which is what the delay notification was reporting
("i/o timeout" to Google's MX - a timeout, not a refusal, is the signature of
a block). Receiving is unaffected and queued mail keeps retrying. Documented
with the two ways out, including the relay path, which is verified working
code rather than another stub.
Verified: 22 Go packages pass, 5 new compose tests and 3 for the DSN handling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The interface was reporting things that were not true. Several screens were
mockups wired to nothing, and a reader with the console in Portuguese was
served a mixture of two languages.
Fabricated data, removed:
- The outbound queue was two invented jobs held in component state. Retry and
Freeze only edited that local array, so the screen showed the same two rows
on every deployment and reported success for actions that never happened.
"Freeze" named an operation the backend has never implemented. It now reads
/api/v1/admin/queue, which was already serving the real thing, and offers
retry and cancel, which exist.
- Every dashboard KPI fell back to an invented constant (1420 received, 890
sent, 3 queued, 18.4% disk), so an unreachable API produced a dashboard of
plausible traffic for a server that might have delivered nothing. Two of
those fields were never returned by the endpoint at all, so the fake disk
figure was what everyone always saw. DMARC did the same with 1250/98%/97%.
- The domains screen showed thirteen DNS records for example.com, all marked
VERIFIED, and posted {domain_id: "default-domain"} to endpoints expecting a
real id. DKIM rotation sends "domain", not "domain_id", so its 400 was
swallowed and a made-up TXT record displayed as though a key had been
issued: rotation had never once worked from this screen.
- The TLS panel asserted a Let's Encrypt RSA 4096 certificate and verified
DANE from static markup, on a deployment currently serving a self-signed
one. It now reads the cert watcher via /api/v1/admin/tls.
- The readiness scorecard printed "10 / 10 all checks passed" regardless of
what preflight reported, including failures.
- A message trace that found nothing invented a five-step delivery - TLS 1.3
accepted, SPF pass, spam score 0.8 - for a message that does not exist.
- Both sidebars showed a fixed admin@lambdamail.local with a hardcoded
"SUPER_ADMIN (2FA)", claiming a second factor whether or not one existed.
- Settings seeded a "[Boletim]" Sieve rule. Saving posts the whole list, so
the first edit wrote that invented filter into the account's real script.
The reconcile endpoint itself answered {records_verified: 13, status:
"VERIFIED"} for any domain id, including one that does not exist, without
resolving a name. It now reports what it does, which is record the request.
Surfaces:
The root was a chooser listing webmail and the console side by side, which
asked visitors a question they should not have to answer and advertised cookie
names and audiences to anonymous readers. It now redirects into the mail
client. Accounts that may administer the server get a link to the console from
inside the app - a link to /admin/login, so crossing over still costs the
second factor the admin audience requires - and the console gets a plain link
back, since the webmail session was never given up to get there.
Enrolment:
Both enrolment screens printed the base32 secret as text and left the operator
to type 32 characters into their phone. The enrol endpoint already returned an
otpauth:// URI; it simply was not drawn. Added a shared component that renders
it as a QR locally - the seed is already in the page, and sending it to an
image service would put it in another request log for nothing.
The recovery-code step rendered its own "sign in" button while the form's
submit button stayed visible below it: two identical buttons, and no way to
copy the codes it insisted you save. It is now terminal, with copy and
continue.
Language:
translate() had no interpolation, so "Undo Send ({seconds}s remaining)" showed
the placeholder and a second hardcoded countdown was appended after it. It now
substitutes, leaving an unmatched token visible rather than blanking it.
The pt-BR bundle had lost its diacritics - "Destinatario", "Ultimo erro",
"Acoes" - from the ASCII-source rule being applied to the translations, which
are data. Restored, and the three bundles are back in key parity at 270 each,
with roughly 120 strings that were hardcoded in the source now keyed.
Healthchecks:
web had none, despite being the only service users reach directly: a wedged
Next process kept its container running and Traefik kept routing to it. Added,
using node's own fetch since the image ships no curl. rspamd and clamav gained
the timeouts and start_periods whose absence would fail them during startup.
migrate stays without one and says why: it is a one-shot job, and a probe
would report unhealthy exactly when it has succeeded.
Verified: 36 webmail tests and 41 auth tests against a real Postgres, both new
admin/me cases confirmed to fail without the route (404). lang-lint clean,
production build clean, 0 vulnerabilities, compose validates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The console demanded a second factor and refused to open without one, but
enrolment lived on the other surface - so an operator whose only account
was the administrator had no way in. The password was already verified at
that point, so the refusal now carries a short-lived grant that permits
enrolling a factor and nothing else, and the admin login screen walks
through it: secret, confirmation, recovery codes, sign in. Two tests cover
it, including that the grant opens no other endpoint.
The rewrite also undid work that was already in place:
- The postcss override was dropped and the advisory came back, along
with a critical one in vitest. postcss is a direct dependency now, so
the fix is the version plus an override scoped to Next's own copy;
vitest moves to 3.2.7. The lockfile needed regenerating for either to
take effect. Zero advisories now.
- 100 language-lint violations: the admin console had been rewritten
with its strings in Portuguese, hardcoded. That fails CI, and it also
puts those strings beyond the reach of the translation bundles - an
English or Spanish user would have read Portuguese. They are English
in the source again.
- The mail screen put a fixed 320px list beside the reader with no
breakpoint, so on a phone the viewport overflowed and the message was
a few pixels wide. One pane at a time below md, with a way back.
- The icon-only navigation toggles had nothing for a screen reader to
announce.
The layouts' own mobile navigation and every previously fixed behaviour
survived the rewrite - checked rather than assumed.
Also fixes a marker collision I introduced: the E2E helper locates the
repository by a migrations directory, and services/migrations satisfied
that one directory too early. It now requires the SQL to actually be
there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The deployment sets NODE_ENV=production, and npm omits devDependencies
when it is set - so "npm ci" in the build stage installed no typescript
and "npm run build" failed with exit 127, command not found. The first
Coolify deployment died there.
The build stage now asks for them explicitly rather than depending on the
environment it happens to run in. Reproduced by building all three images
with NODE_ENV=production before and after.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DKIM rotation broke the domain it was run on. It retired the live key and
inserted a placeholder as ACTIVE - private_key_enc was the literal string
"dummy-encrypted-key" - so FindActiveKeys then failed for the whole
domain and outbound mail stopped being signed, with the real key already
gone. Reproduced against a database before changing anything.
The root cause runs deeper: the auth service derives its encryption key
with a plain SHA-256 of the master key while the protocols service uses
HKDF with its own info string, so nothing the auth service seals can ever
be opened by the signer. Rotation therefore moves to the protocols
service, which owns that vault and the real key generator. It retires the
previous key with a seven-day overlap in the same transaction rather than
deleting it, because mail already sent under it is still being verified.
Domain onboarding had three defects in one function. It built the alias
destination by interpolating the domain name into the SQL text, which was
injectable; it reused one placeholder for a CITEXT and a VARCHAR column,
which made the statement fail and happened to hide the injection; and it
ignored its scope argument entirely, so any DOMAIN_ADMIN could create
domains. It also provisioned postmaster, abuse and security, missing the
dmarc and tlsrpt aliases that the published records point at - PLAN.md
section 7.4b is explicit that reports bounce without them.
The TLS panel returned fixed values: acme_status "VALID" and 72 days to
expiry, whatever the process actually held. It now reads the certificate
watcher, and a compile-time assertion keeps the wiring from silently
regressing into "disabled". The audit log and the readiness scorecard were
fixtures too, and their field names did not match the API they now read.
Two tests failed and a third asserted a fabricated constant: one depended
on test order through a shared fixture that had a second factor enrolled,
one used a fixed domain name and so passed once per database, and one
expected "records: 13" from a function that never touches DNS. All three
are fixed, and the suite now passes twice in a row against one database.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
F4's acceptance criterion asks for the three translations to be 100%
complete with the language lint green. The bundles had parity but the
admin screens and the account area were still hardcoded English: 63
visible strings that no locale could reach.
They now come from a shared ui namespace, so the three bundles cannot
drift apart, and all three carry 126 keys.
The language lint also caught this branch's own Go tests: the RFC 2047
cases need accented output to be worth anything, and the delivery test
had Portuguese fixture text. The expectations are written as Go escapes
instead, which keeps the assertions and leaves the source ASCII, and the
fixture text is English.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
F4 lists real-time updates and the interface had none: an open inbox only
changed when the user reloaded it.
Events come from the transactional outbox rather than from an in-process
callback, which is what the outbox is for (PLAN.md section 9.4): the row
is written in the same transaction as the message, so an event can never
describe a delivery that rolled back, and a crash between commit and
publish loses nothing because the row is still there on restart. The relay
claims rows with SKIP LOCKED so a second instance can help without
publishing anything twice.
The hub fans events out per mailbox, keyed by the mailbox the session
resolved to, so one account's arrivals are never visible to another even
though they share the process. A subscriber that stops reading is dropped
rather than allowed to stall the relay; it reconciles on reconnect.
The client reconnects with capped exponential backoff and treats every
successful connect as a resync, refetching the folder. Without that, a
socket that dropped for a minute would leave the list quietly stale, which
is worse than having no real-time updates at all.
The upgrade goes through a Next rewrite, not the API route handler: a
route handler sees a finished request and cannot upgrade a connection.
Verified against the running stack - the handshake returns 101 through the
Next server, and a message delivered on port 25 arrives as a frame on an
already-open socket without the page asking for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mail list rendered two hardcoded messages and the reader showed their
canned HTML; compose ran a countdown and then navigated away without ever
submitting anything. Both now use the API, including search, the unread
badges in the sidebar (which were the literals "3" and "1", so an empty
inbox still advertised unread mail), and marking a message read on open.
The undo window now means what it says: the message is held in the browser
and only submitted when the countdown elapses, so cancelling it means
nothing was ever queued rather than trying to recall it afterwards.
Message bodies render in an iframe with an empty sandbox - no scripts, no
same-origin - and remote references are stripped until the reader asks for
images, so a tracking pixel cannot fire on open. The previous sandbox
allowed popups.
The admin page titles and the language switcher labels now come from the
bundles. The labels live there rather than in the source because PLAN.md
R9 keeps non-ASCII out of code, and each language should be named the way
that language names it.
ADR-001 assigned the mail API to the TypeScript storage service; the
reasoning for putting it in Go instead is recorded in PLAN.md, which
.gitignore deliberately keeps out of the repository, so that revision
lives only in the working copy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three separate gaps, all of which made the F4 interface non-functional or
unprotected:
The admin console rendered for anyone. There was no middleware and no
guard in the layout, so /admin/dashboard returned 200 unauthenticated -
only its data calls failed. middleware.ts now redirects both surfaces to
their login when the session cookie is missing, expired, carries the wrong
audience, or is a pre-MFA challenge token. It reads the claims without
verifying the signature on purpose: the signing key belongs to the auth
service and must not reach the browser bundle. That is sound because this
is not the boundary - every /api/v1 request is verified for real upstream.
Nothing served /api/v1/*. next.config.ts had no rewrites and there were no
route handlers, so every call the pages made 404'd against the Next
server, while AUTH_SERVICE_URL sat unused. A catch-all route now proxies
to the auth service, forwarding the client address and preserving multiple
Set-Cookie headers, which logout needs to clear both surfaces. Session
cookies also move to Path=/, since a cookie pinned to /user or /admin was
never sent with the /api/v1 requests that needed it.
i18n existed only as files. The three bundles had perfect key parity and
real translations, but no library, no imports and no switcher: the UI was
hardcoded English and i18n.test.ts compared keys while the feature was
absent. There is now a provider, a hook, a language switcher, and
server-side Accept-Language negotiation that honours q-values and matches
a bare "pt" to pt-BR. Logins, both layouts and the settings screen consume
it; the admin pages still have English titles.
The settings screen invented app passwords in the browser with Math.random
and never stored them. It now calls the API, which returns the password
once and keeps only its hash.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI gains a security job (Trivy fs: vuln, secret and misconfig) and an
image job that builds each of the four services and scans the result. The
secret scanner earns its place here: a DKIM key or Cloudflare token
committed by accident is a full compromise of every domain served.
release.yml publishes on a merge into main and on v* tags. Four services
on two architectures is eight build jobs pushing by digest, then four
publish jobs joining each pair into one manifest list, tagged latest, sha
and semver. github.repository is lowercased first because GHCR rejects an
uppercase path and this repository is lucasrguerra/LambdaMail.
Both scanners failed on first run, so this commit also fixes what they
found rather than shipping a workflow that is red on arrival:
- All four images ran as root (DS-0002), which section 17 risk R5
explicitly argues against. They now run unprivileged; protocols keeps
its eight ports below 1024 through cap_net_bind_service on the binary
rather than through being root.
- A HIGH advisory in postcss, reached only through Next. "npm audit fix
--force" would have resolved it by downgrading Next from 15 to 9, so
it is pinned with an override instead.
- The Node images copied the build stage's node_modules wholesale,
shipping typescript, eslint and vitest into production, and the base
image's own bundled npm accounted for the rest of the CVEs. Runtime
dependencies now come from npm ci --omit=dev and npm is removed from
the final layer.
- compose-up could never have passed: the proxy network is external
because Coolify owns it on the deploy host, and nothing creates it in
CI, so compose refused to start the stack at all.
Verified locally: actionlint clean, all ten action refs confirmed to
exist, Trivy fs and all four image scans exit 0, the full stack reaches
Healthy on every container, and the containers run as uid 10001/1000 with
all eight privileged ports bound and SMTP answering on 25. The arm64
build itself is unverified - this machine has no buildx - and will first
be exercised by release.yml.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
