To send mails, today some tests use msmtp and others our internal smtpc.py.
This works, but msmtp slows down the tests significantly, and smtpc.py
is also not particularly fast, and also has some limitations.
This patch introduces a new SMTP client tool written in Go, and makes
almost all the tests use it.
Some tests still remain on msmtp, mainly for client-check compatibility.
It's likely that this will be moved in later patches to a separate
special-purpose test.
With this patch, integration tests take ~20% less time than before.
This patch updates the shell scripts with some of the common best
practices, which should make them more resilient to unusual failures and
unexpected environments (in particular, directories with spaces).
Most of these were identified by shellcheck.
When resolving MX records, we need to distinguish between "no such
domain" and other kinds of errors. Before Go 1.13, this was not
possible, so we had a workaround that assumed any permanent error was a
"no such domain", which is not great, but functional.
Now that our minimum supported version is Go 1.15, we can remove the
workaround.
This patch replaces the workaround with proper logic using
DNSError.IsNotFound to identify NXDOMAIN results when resolving MX
records.
This requires to adjust a few tests, that used to work on environments
where resolving unknown domains (used for testing) returned a permanent
error, and now they no longer do so. Instead of relying on this
environmental property, we make the affected tests use our own DNS
server, which should make them more hermetic and reproducible.
Most integration tests depend on the $HOSTALIASES environment variable
being functional. That variable works on most systems, but not all. In
particular, systems with `systemd-resolved` can cause the variable to be
ignored.
This was reported by Alex Ellwein in
https://github.com/albertito/chasquid/issues/20.
This patch makes the affected tests to be skipped if $HOSTALIASES is not
working properly. It also removes unnecessary hosts files from tests
which don't need it, and documents this behaviour.
Thanks to Alex Ellwein and foxcpp@ for reporting and helping investigate
this issue!
glog works fine and has great features, but it does not play along well
with systemd or standard log rotators (as it does the rotation itself).
So this patch replaces glog with a new logging module "log", which by
default logs to stderr, in a systemd-friendly manner.
Logging to files or syslog is still supported.
Make the SMTP courier fall back to the A record when MX does not exist, as per
standard behaviour.
This is not implemented nicely, because Go's API does not give a clear signal
if the answer was that there are no MX records or something else happens.
For now, we implement it with a heuristic that should work pretty reliably,
but it's definitely not very nice.
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.
This patch adds checks that verify:
- The envelope from must match the authenticated user. This prevents
impersonation at the envelope level (while still allowing bounces, of
course).
- If the destination is remote, then the user must have completed
authentication. This prevents unauthorized relaying.
The patch ends up adjusting quite a few tests, as they were not written
considering these restrictions so they have to be changed accordingly.