This patch implements "via" aliases, which let us explicitly select a
server to use for delivery.
This feature is useful in different scenarios, such as a secondary MX
server that forwards all incoming email to a primary.
For now, it is experimental and the syntax and semantics are subject to
change.
Today, aliases parsing is too lax, silently ignoring most kinds of invalid
lines.
That behaviour can cause a lot of confusion when users think the aliases
are being parsed, and also cause problems when extending the syntax.
This patch fixes that problem by making aliases parsing return errors on
the invalid lines.
Unfortunately this will cause some previously-accepted files to now be
rejected, but it should be quite visible.
This patch implements support for aliases that contain '*' as the
destination user.
In that case, we replace it with the original user.
For example, `*: *@pond` will redirect `lilly@domain` to `lilly@pond`.
This is experimental for now, and marked as such in the documentation.
The semantics can be subtle, so we may need to adjust them later.
This patch fixes some minor typos in comments and strings found by
codespell.
While at it, also expand some variable names that were not typos, but
caused false positives, and end up being more readable anyway.
This patch makes chasquid log how many users, aliases and DKIM keys were
loaded for each domain.
This makes it easier to confirm changes, and troubleshoot problems
related to these per-domain configuration files.
Today, when starting up, if there's an error reading the users or
aliases files, we only log but do not exit. And then those files will
not be attempted to be read on the periodic reload.
We also treat "file does not exist" as an error for users file, but not
aliases file, resulting in inconsistent behaviour between the two.
All of this makes some classes of problems (like permission errors) more
difficult to spot and troubleshoot. For example,
https://github.com/albertito/chasquid/issues/55.
So this patch makes errors reading users/aliases files on startup a
fatal error, and also unifies the "file does not exist" behaviour to
make it not an error in both cases.
Note that the behaviour on the periodic reload is unchanged: treat these
errors as fatal too. This may be changed in future patches.
Today, when a user sets an alias with drop characters and/or suffixes,
those go unused, since we always "clean" addresses before alias
resolution.
This results in unexpected and surprising behaviour, and it's not
properly documented either.
This patch resolves this unexpected behaviour as follows:
- Drop characters are ignored, both at parsing time and at lookup time.
- Lookups are done including the suffixes first, and if that results in
no matches, they are retried without suffixes.
This results in aliases working more intuitively for the most common use
cases: of users wanting to have different aliases for specific suffixes,
and not having to care for drop characters.
Hooks can be used to get different behaviour if needed, since the first
lookup is done with the address as-is.
Thanks to znerol@ (lo+github@znerol.ch) for reporting this, and the
discussion on how to fix it, in
https://github.com/albertito/chasquid/issues/41.
Today, the parsing functions are stand-alone since they don't need
anything from the resolver.
But in future patches, that will change.
In anticipation of that, move those functions to be methods of the
resolver.
The aliases.Resolver.Exists function currently returns the "clean"
address (with the drop characters and suffixes removed), which is relied
upon in its only caller.
That, however, makes the logic more difficult to follow, hiding some
of the address manipulation behind what should be a read-only check.
So this patch reorganizes that code a little bit, removing the
"cleaning" of the address as part of Exists, and making it explicit when
needed instead.
This patch does not have any user-visible change in behaviour, it is
just internal reorganization.
This is in preparation for further patches which will improve the
handling of some aliases corner cases.
This patch changes several internal packages to receive and pass tracing
annotations, making use of the new tracing library, so we can have
better debugging information.
This patch is the result of running Go 1.19's `gofmt` on the codebase,
which automatically updates all Go doc comments to the new format.
https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.19#go-doc
This patch implements support for catch-all aliases, where users can add
a `*: destination` alias. Mails sent to unknown users (or other aliases)
will not be rejected, but sent to the indicated destination instead.
Please see https://github.com/albertito/chasquid/issues/23 and
https://github.com/albertito/chasquid/pull/24 for more discussion and
background.
Thanks to Alex Ellwein (aellwein@github) for the alternative patch and
help with testing; and to ThinkChaos (ThinkChaos@github) for help with
testing.
This patch skips the resolution logic if the address is not local.
Today, the resolution logic handles that case transparently, and returns
the original email address, so this should be a no-op.
However, having an explicit early check makes the resolution logic more
robust, and will simplify future patches.
Note this also means that the `alias-resolve` hook is no longer run for
non-local aliases, which should also help simplify their implementation.
This patch simplifies the internal alias lookup logic, unifying it
across Resolve and Exists.
As part of this, the `alias-exists` hook is removed. It was redundant to
begin with, although it enabled a potential optimization, it isn't worth
the complexity. The timeout for execution of both was the same.
This change should be backwards-compatible because `alias-resolve` is
still used, and the semantics haven't changed.
This patch makes chasquid's monitoring server expose an OpenMetrics
metrics endpoint.
It adds a new package "expvarom" which implements an HTTP handler that
exports expvar variables in the OpenMetrics text format.
Then, the handler is registered by the monitoring server at /metrics
(where most things expect it to be).
The existing exported variables are also extended with descriptions,
which is optional, but improves the readability of the metrics.
The output of the alias-exists hook is unused, so currently it's
discarded silently.
However, it can be very useful to debug issues when the hook is not
working as expected.
So this patch makes chasquid log the combined output (stdout and stderr)
to the execution trace.
This patch implements two new hooks: alias-resolve and alias-exists.
They are called during the aliases resolution process, to allow for more
complex integration with other systems, such as storing the aliases in a
database.
See the included documentation for more details.
This patch adds a missing docstrings for exported identifiers, and
adjust some of the existing ones to match the standard style.
In some cases, the identifiers were un-exported after noticing they had
no external users.
Besides improving documentation, it also reduces the linter noise
significantly.
The right-hand side addresses of an alias should be normalized, to
maintain the internal invariant that we always deal with normalized
addresses.
Otherwise, strange situations may arise, such as the same domain having
two different domaininfo structures depending on case.
This patch is the result of running go vet, go fmt -s and the linter,
and fixing some of the things they noted/suggested.
There shouldn't be any significant logic changes, it's mostly
readability improvements.
This patch implements local username normalization using PRECIS
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7564,
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7613)
It makes chasquid accept local email and authentication regardless of
the case. It covers both userdb and aliases.
Note that non-local usernames remain untouched.
It's more convenient and in line with standard practice to fail RCPT TO if the
user does not exist.
This involves making the server and client aware of aliases, but it doesn't
end up being very convoluted, and simplifies other code.
Today, if the aliases file does not exist when chasquid starts up, the entire
domain will be skipped from aliases resolution.
That's a bug, as it means we don't perform character and suffix replacements
for known domains, and is also an inconvenience as it forces us to reload the
daemon when adding a file for a known domain.
This patch fixes this by adding them unconditionally, even if the file does
not exist.
This patch removes chasquid-userdb and adds a more generic and extensive
chasquid-util, that supports various operations on user databases as well as
aliases lookups.
The code is not very pretty but for now I took a more practical approach, the
tool is ancillary and can be tidied up later.
aliases databases can be very useful, so this patch adds a package to parse
and resolve aliases.
It uses an existing, well known and widely used format for aliases, although
it doesn't necessarily match 100% any existing implementation at the moment.
