2023-01-30 16:27:06 +03:00
{
"Name" : "Account" ,
2023-03-12 13:52:15 +03:00
"Docs" : "Account exports web API functions for the account web interface. All its\nmethods are exported under api/. Function calls require valid HTTP\nAuthentication credentials of a user." ,
2023-01-30 16:27:06 +03:00
"Functions" : [
replace http basic auth for web interfaces with session cookie & csrf-based auth
the http basic auth we had was very simple to reason about, and to implement.
but it has a major downside:
there is no way to logout, browsers keep sending credentials. ideally, browsers
themselves would show a button to stop sending credentials.
a related downside: the http auth mechanism doesn't indicate for which server
paths the credentials are.
another downside: the original password is sent to the server with each
request. though sending original passwords to web servers seems to be
considered normal.
our new approach uses session cookies, along with csrf values when we can. the
sessions are server-side managed, automatically extended on each use. this
makes it easy to invalidate sessions and keeps the frontend simpler (than with
long- vs short-term sessions and refreshing). the cookies are httponly,
samesite=strict, scoped to the path of the web interface. cookies are set
"secure" when set over https. the cookie is set by a successful call to Login.
a call to Logout invalidates a session. changing a password invalidates all
sessions for a user, but keeps the session with which the password was changed
alive. the csrf value is also random, and associated with the session cookie.
the csrf must be sent as header for api calls, or as parameter for direct form
posts (where we cannot set a custom header). rest-like calls made directly by
the browser, e.g. for images, don't have a csrf protection. the csrf value is
returned by the Login api call and stored in localstorage.
api calls without credentials return code "user:noAuth", and with bad
credentials return "user:badAuth". the api client recognizes this and triggers
a login. after a login, all auth-failed api calls are automatically retried.
only for "user:badAuth" is an error message displayed in the login form (e.g.
session expired).
in an ideal world, browsers would take care of most session management. a
server would indicate authentication is needed (like http basic auth), and the
browsers uses trusted ui to request credentials for the server & path. the
browser could use safer mechanism than sending original passwords to the
server, such as scram, along with a standard way to create sessions. for now,
web developers have to do authentication themselves: from showing the login
prompt, ensuring the right session/csrf cookies/localstorage/headers/etc are
sent with each request.
webauthn is a newer way to do authentication, perhaps we'll implement it in the
future. though hardware tokens aren't an attractive option for many users, and
it may be overkill as long as we still do old-fashioned authentication in smtp
& imap where passwords can be sent to the server.
for issue #58
2024-01-04 15:10:48 +03:00
{
"Name" : "LoginPrep" ,
"Docs" : "LoginPrep returns a login token, and also sets it as cookie. Both must be\npresent in the call to Login." ,
"Params" : [ ] ,
"Returns" : [
{
"Name" : "r0" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Login" ,
"Docs" : "Login returns a session token for the credentials, or fails with error code\n\"user:badLogin\". Call LoginPrep to get a loginToken." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "loginToken" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "username" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "password" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [
{
"Name" : "r0" ,
"Typewords" : [
"CSRFToken"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Logout" ,
"Docs" : "Logout invalidates the session token." ,
"Params" : [ ] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
} ,
2023-01-30 16:27:06 +03:00
{
"Name" : "SetPassword" ,
"Docs" : "SetPassword saves a new password for the account, invalidating the previous password.\nSessions are not interrupted, and will keep working. New login attempts must use the new password.\nPassword must be at least 8 characters." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "password" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
2023-02-11 01:47:19 +03:00
} ,
{
add webmail
it was far down on the roadmap, but implemented earlier, because it's
interesting, and to help prepare for a jmap implementation. for jmap we need to
implement more client-like functionality than with just imap. internal data
structures need to change. jmap has lots of other requirements, so it's already
a big project. by implementing a webmail now, some of the required data
structure changes become clear and can be made now, so the later jmap
implementation can do things similarly to the webmail code. the webmail
frontend and webmail are written together, making their interface/api much
smaller and simpler than jmap.
one of the internal changes is that we now keep track of per-mailbox
total/unread/unseen/deleted message counts and mailbox sizes. keeping this
data consistent after any change to the stored messages (through the code base)
is tricky, so mox now has a consistency check that verifies the counts are
correct, which runs only during tests, each time an internal account reference
is closed. we have a few more internal "changes" that are propagated for the
webmail frontend (that imap doesn't have a way to propagate on a connection),
like changes to the special-use flags on mailboxes, and used keywords in a
mailbox. more changes that will be required have revealed themselves while
implementing the webmail, and will be implemented next.
the webmail user interface is modeled after the mail clients i use or have
used: thunderbird, macos mail, mutt; and webmails i normally only use for
testing: gmail, proton, yahoo, outlook. a somewhat technical user is assumed,
but still the goal is to make this webmail client easy to use for everyone. the
user interface looks like most other mail clients: a list of mailboxes, a
search bar, a message list view, and message details. there is a top/bottom and
a left/right layout for the list/message view, default is automatic based on
screen size. the panes can be resized by the user. buttons for actions are just
text, not icons. clicking a button briefly shows the shortcut for the action in
the bottom right, helping with learning to operate quickly. any text that is
underdotted has a title attribute that causes more information to be displayed,
e.g. what a button does or a field is about. to highlight potential phishing
attempts, any text (anywhere in the webclient) that switches unicode "blocks"
(a rough approximation to (language) scripts) within a word is underlined
orange. multiple messages can be selected with familiar ui interaction:
clicking while holding control and/or shift keys. keyboard navigation works
with arrows/page up/down and home/end keys, and also with a few basic vi-like
keys for list/message navigation. we prefer showing the text instead of
html (with inlined images only) version of a message. html messages are shown
in an iframe served from an endpoint with CSP headers to prevent dangerous
resources (scripts, external images) from being loaded. the html is also
sanitized, with javascript removed. a user can choose to load external
resources (e.g. images for tracking purposes).
the frontend is just (strict) typescript, no external frameworks. all
incoming/outgoing data is typechecked, both the api request parameters and
response types, and the data coming in over SSE. the types and checking code
are generated with sherpats, which uses the api definitions generated by
sherpadoc based on the Go code. so types from the backend are automatically
propagated to the frontend. since there is no framework to automatically
propagate properties and rerender components, changes coming in over the SSE
connection are propagated explicitly with regular function calls. the ui is
separated into "views", each with a "root" dom element that is added to the
visible document. these views have additional functions for getting changes
propagated, often resulting in the view updating its (internal) ui state (dom).
we keep the frontend compilation simple, it's just a few typescript files that
get compiled (combined and types stripped) into a single js file, no additional
runtime code needed or complicated build processes used. the webmail is served
is served from a compressed, cachable html file that includes style and the
javascript, currently just over 225kb uncompressed, under 60kb compressed (not
minified, including comments). we include the generated js files in the
repository, to keep Go's easily buildable self-contained binaries.
authentication is basic http, as with the account and admin pages. most data
comes in over one long-term SSE connection to the backend. api requests signal
which mailbox/search/messages are requested over the SSE connection. fetching
individual messages, and making changes, are done through api calls. the
operations are similar to imap, so some code has been moved from package
imapserver to package store. the future jmap implementation will benefit from
these changes too. more functionality will probably be moved to the store
package in the future.
the quickstart enables webmail on the internal listener by default (for new
installs). users can enable it on the public listener if they want to. mox
localserve enables it too. to enable webmail on existing installs, add settings
like the following to the listeners in mox.conf, similar to AccountHTTP(S):
WebmailHTTP:
Enabled: true
WebmailHTTPS:
Enabled: true
special thanks to liesbeth, gerben, andrii for early user feedback.
there is plenty still to do, see the list at the top of webmail/webmail.ts.
feedback welcome as always.
2023-08-07 22:57:03 +03:00
"Name" : "Account" ,
2024-04-14 18:18:20 +03:00
"Docs" : "Account returns information about the account.\nStorageUsed is the sum of the sizes of all messages, in bytes.\nStorageLimit is the maximum storage that can be used, or 0 if there is no limit." ,
2023-02-11 01:47:19 +03:00
"Params" : [ ] ,
"Returns" : [
{
2024-04-14 18:18:20 +03:00
"Name" : "account" ,
2023-02-11 01:47:19 +03:00
"Typewords" : [
2024-04-14 18:18:20 +03:00
"Account"
2023-02-11 01:47:19 +03:00
]
2024-03-11 16:02:35 +03:00
} ,
{
"Name" : "storageUsed" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "storageLimit" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
add a webapi and webhooks for a simple http/json-based api
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
2024-04-15 22:49:02 +03:00
} ,
{
"Name" : "suppressions" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"Suppression"
]
2023-02-11 01:47:19 +03:00
}
]
} ,
add webmail
it was far down on the roadmap, but implemented earlier, because it's
interesting, and to help prepare for a jmap implementation. for jmap we need to
implement more client-like functionality than with just imap. internal data
structures need to change. jmap has lots of other requirements, so it's already
a big project. by implementing a webmail now, some of the required data
structure changes become clear and can be made now, so the later jmap
implementation can do things similarly to the webmail code. the webmail
frontend and webmail are written together, making their interface/api much
smaller and simpler than jmap.
one of the internal changes is that we now keep track of per-mailbox
total/unread/unseen/deleted message counts and mailbox sizes. keeping this
data consistent after any change to the stored messages (through the code base)
is tricky, so mox now has a consistency check that verifies the counts are
correct, which runs only during tests, each time an internal account reference
is closed. we have a few more internal "changes" that are propagated for the
webmail frontend (that imap doesn't have a way to propagate on a connection),
like changes to the special-use flags on mailboxes, and used keywords in a
mailbox. more changes that will be required have revealed themselves while
implementing the webmail, and will be implemented next.
the webmail user interface is modeled after the mail clients i use or have
used: thunderbird, macos mail, mutt; and webmails i normally only use for
testing: gmail, proton, yahoo, outlook. a somewhat technical user is assumed,
but still the goal is to make this webmail client easy to use for everyone. the
user interface looks like most other mail clients: a list of mailboxes, a
search bar, a message list view, and message details. there is a top/bottom and
a left/right layout for the list/message view, default is automatic based on
screen size. the panes can be resized by the user. buttons for actions are just
text, not icons. clicking a button briefly shows the shortcut for the action in
the bottom right, helping with learning to operate quickly. any text that is
underdotted has a title attribute that causes more information to be displayed,
e.g. what a button does or a field is about. to highlight potential phishing
attempts, any text (anywhere in the webclient) that switches unicode "blocks"
(a rough approximation to (language) scripts) within a word is underlined
orange. multiple messages can be selected with familiar ui interaction:
clicking while holding control and/or shift keys. keyboard navigation works
with arrows/page up/down and home/end keys, and also with a few basic vi-like
keys for list/message navigation. we prefer showing the text instead of
html (with inlined images only) version of a message. html messages are shown
in an iframe served from an endpoint with CSP headers to prevent dangerous
resources (scripts, external images) from being loaded. the html is also
sanitized, with javascript removed. a user can choose to load external
resources (e.g. images for tracking purposes).
the frontend is just (strict) typescript, no external frameworks. all
incoming/outgoing data is typechecked, both the api request parameters and
response types, and the data coming in over SSE. the types and checking code
are generated with sherpats, which uses the api definitions generated by
sherpadoc based on the Go code. so types from the backend are automatically
propagated to the frontend. since there is no framework to automatically
propagate properties and rerender components, changes coming in over the SSE
connection are propagated explicitly with regular function calls. the ui is
separated into "views", each with a "root" dom element that is added to the
visible document. these views have additional functions for getting changes
propagated, often resulting in the view updating its (internal) ui state (dom).
we keep the frontend compilation simple, it's just a few typescript files that
get compiled (combined and types stripped) into a single js file, no additional
runtime code needed or complicated build processes used. the webmail is served
is served from a compressed, cachable html file that includes style and the
javascript, currently just over 225kb uncompressed, under 60kb compressed (not
minified, including comments). we include the generated js files in the
repository, to keep Go's easily buildable self-contained binaries.
authentication is basic http, as with the account and admin pages. most data
comes in over one long-term SSE connection to the backend. api requests signal
which mailbox/search/messages are requested over the SSE connection. fetching
individual messages, and making changes, are done through api calls. the
operations are similar to imap, so some code has been moved from package
imapserver to package store. the future jmap implementation will benefit from
these changes too. more functionality will probably be moved to the store
package in the future.
the quickstart enables webmail on the internal listener by default (for new
installs). users can enable it on the public listener if they want to. mox
localserve enables it too. to enable webmail on existing installs, add settings
like the following to the listeners in mox.conf, similar to AccountHTTP(S):
WebmailHTTP:
Enabled: true
WebmailHTTPS:
Enabled: true
special thanks to liesbeth, gerben, andrii for early user feedback.
there is plenty still to do, see the list at the top of webmail/webmail.ts.
feedback welcome as always.
2023-08-07 22:57:03 +03:00
{
"Name" : "AccountSaveFullName" ,
add a webapi and webhooks for a simple http/json-based api
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
2024-04-15 22:49:02 +03:00
"Docs" : "AccountSaveFullName saves the full name (used as display name in email messages)\nfor the account." ,
add webmail
it was far down on the roadmap, but implemented earlier, because it's
interesting, and to help prepare for a jmap implementation. for jmap we need to
implement more client-like functionality than with just imap. internal data
structures need to change. jmap has lots of other requirements, so it's already
a big project. by implementing a webmail now, some of the required data
structure changes become clear and can be made now, so the later jmap
implementation can do things similarly to the webmail code. the webmail
frontend and webmail are written together, making their interface/api much
smaller and simpler than jmap.
one of the internal changes is that we now keep track of per-mailbox
total/unread/unseen/deleted message counts and mailbox sizes. keeping this
data consistent after any change to the stored messages (through the code base)
is tricky, so mox now has a consistency check that verifies the counts are
correct, which runs only during tests, each time an internal account reference
is closed. we have a few more internal "changes" that are propagated for the
webmail frontend (that imap doesn't have a way to propagate on a connection),
like changes to the special-use flags on mailboxes, and used keywords in a
mailbox. more changes that will be required have revealed themselves while
implementing the webmail, and will be implemented next.
the webmail user interface is modeled after the mail clients i use or have
used: thunderbird, macos mail, mutt; and webmails i normally only use for
testing: gmail, proton, yahoo, outlook. a somewhat technical user is assumed,
but still the goal is to make this webmail client easy to use for everyone. the
user interface looks like most other mail clients: a list of mailboxes, a
search bar, a message list view, and message details. there is a top/bottom and
a left/right layout for the list/message view, default is automatic based on
screen size. the panes can be resized by the user. buttons for actions are just
text, not icons. clicking a button briefly shows the shortcut for the action in
the bottom right, helping with learning to operate quickly. any text that is
underdotted has a title attribute that causes more information to be displayed,
e.g. what a button does or a field is about. to highlight potential phishing
attempts, any text (anywhere in the webclient) that switches unicode "blocks"
(a rough approximation to (language) scripts) within a word is underlined
orange. multiple messages can be selected with familiar ui interaction:
clicking while holding control and/or shift keys. keyboard navigation works
with arrows/page up/down and home/end keys, and also with a few basic vi-like
keys for list/message navigation. we prefer showing the text instead of
html (with inlined images only) version of a message. html messages are shown
in an iframe served from an endpoint with CSP headers to prevent dangerous
resources (scripts, external images) from being loaded. the html is also
sanitized, with javascript removed. a user can choose to load external
resources (e.g. images for tracking purposes).
the frontend is just (strict) typescript, no external frameworks. all
incoming/outgoing data is typechecked, both the api request parameters and
response types, and the data coming in over SSE. the types and checking code
are generated with sherpats, which uses the api definitions generated by
sherpadoc based on the Go code. so types from the backend are automatically
propagated to the frontend. since there is no framework to automatically
propagate properties and rerender components, changes coming in over the SSE
connection are propagated explicitly with regular function calls. the ui is
separated into "views", each with a "root" dom element that is added to the
visible document. these views have additional functions for getting changes
propagated, often resulting in the view updating its (internal) ui state (dom).
we keep the frontend compilation simple, it's just a few typescript files that
get compiled (combined and types stripped) into a single js file, no additional
runtime code needed or complicated build processes used. the webmail is served
is served from a compressed, cachable html file that includes style and the
javascript, currently just over 225kb uncompressed, under 60kb compressed (not
minified, including comments). we include the generated js files in the
repository, to keep Go's easily buildable self-contained binaries.
authentication is basic http, as with the account and admin pages. most data
comes in over one long-term SSE connection to the backend. api requests signal
which mailbox/search/messages are requested over the SSE connection. fetching
individual messages, and making changes, are done through api calls. the
operations are similar to imap, so some code has been moved from package
imapserver to package store. the future jmap implementation will benefit from
these changes too. more functionality will probably be moved to the store
package in the future.
the quickstart enables webmail on the internal listener by default (for new
installs). users can enable it on the public listener if they want to. mox
localserve enables it too. to enable webmail on existing installs, add settings
like the following to the listeners in mox.conf, similar to AccountHTTP(S):
WebmailHTTP:
Enabled: true
WebmailHTTPS:
Enabled: true
special thanks to liesbeth, gerben, andrii for early user feedback.
there is plenty still to do, see the list at the top of webmail/webmail.ts.
feedback welcome as always.
2023-08-07 22:57:03 +03:00
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "fullName" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
} ,
2023-02-11 01:47:19 +03:00
{
"Name" : "DestinationSave" ,
"Docs" : "DestinationSave updates a destination.\nOldDest is compared against the current destination. If it does not match, an\nerror is returned. Otherwise newDest is saved and the configuration reloaded." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "destName" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "oldDest" ,
"Typewords" : [
"Destination"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "newDest" ,
"Typewords" : [
"Destination"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
2023-02-16 11:57:27 +03:00
} ,
{
"Name" : "ImportAbort" ,
"Docs" : "ImportAbort aborts an import that is in progress. If the import exists and isn't\nfinished, no changes will have been made by the import." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "importToken" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
2023-12-31 13:55:22 +03:00
} ,
{
"Name" : "Types" ,
"Docs" : "Types exposes types not used in API method signatures, such as the import form upload." ,
"Params" : [ ] ,
"Returns" : [
{
"Name" : "importProgress" ,
"Typewords" : [
"ImportProgress"
]
}
]
add a webapi and webhooks for a simple http/json-based api
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
2024-04-15 22:49:02 +03:00
} ,
{
"Name" : "SuppressionList" ,
"Docs" : "SuppressionList lists the addresses on the suppression list of this account." ,
"Params" : [ ] ,
"Returns" : [
{
"Name" : "suppressions" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"Suppression"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "SuppressionAdd" ,
"Docs" : "SuppressionAdd adds an email address to the suppression list." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "address" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "manual" ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "reason" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [
{
"Name" : "suppression" ,
"Typewords" : [
"Suppression"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "SuppressionRemove" ,
"Docs" : "SuppressionRemove removes the email address from the suppression list." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "address" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
} ,
{
"Name" : "OutgoingWebhookSave" ,
"Docs" : "OutgoingWebhookSave saves a new webhook url for outgoing deliveries. If url\nis empty, the webhook is disabled. If authorization is non-empty it is used for\nthe Authorization header in HTTP requests. Events specifies the outgoing events\nto be delivered, or all if empty/nil." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "url" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "authorization" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "events" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
} ,
{
"Name" : "OutgoingWebhookTest" ,
"Docs" : "OutgoingWebhookTest makes a test webhook call to urlStr, with optional\nauthorization. If the HTTP request is made this call will succeed also for\nnon-2xx HTTP status codes." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "urlStr" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "authorization" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "data" ,
"Typewords" : [
"Outgoing"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [
{
"Name" : "code" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "response" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "errmsg" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "IncomingWebhookSave" ,
"Docs" : "IncomingWebhookSave saves a new webhook url for incoming deliveries. If url is\nempty, the webhook is disabled. If authorization is not empty, it is used in\nthe Authorization header in requests." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "url" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "authorization" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
} ,
{
"Name" : "IncomingWebhookTest" ,
"Docs" : "IncomingWebhookTest makes a test webhook HTTP delivery request to urlStr,\nwith optional authorization header. If the HTTP call is made, this function\nreturns non-error regardless of HTTP status code." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "urlStr" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "authorization" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "data" ,
"Typewords" : [
"Incoming"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [
{
"Name" : "code" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "response" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "errmsg" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "FromIDLoginAddressesSave" ,
"Docs" : "FromIDLoginAddressesSave saves new login addresses to enable unique SMTP\nMAIL FROM addresses (\"fromid\") for deliveries from the queue." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "loginAddresses" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
} ,
{
"Name" : "KeepRetiredPeriodsSave" ,
"Docs" : "KeepRetiredPeriodsSave save periods to save retired messages and webhooks." ,
"Params" : [
{
"Name" : "keepRetiredMessagePeriod" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "keepRetiredWebhookPeriod" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
}
] ,
"Returns" : [ ]
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}
] ,
"Sections" : [ ] ,
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"Structs" : [
{
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"Name" : "Account" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
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"Fields" : [
add a webapi and webhooks for a simple http/json-based api
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
2024-04-15 22:49:02 +03:00
{
"Name" : "OutgoingWebhook" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"nullable" ,
"OutgoingWebhook"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "IncomingWebhook" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"nullable" ,
"IncomingWebhook"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "FromIDLoginAddresses" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "KeepRetiredMessagePeriod" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "KeepRetiredWebhookPeriod" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
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{
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"Name" : "Domain" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
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"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
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"Name" : "Description" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "FullName" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Destinations" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"{}" ,
"Destination"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "SubjectPass" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"SubjectPass"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "QuotaMessageSize" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "RejectsMailbox" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
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"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
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} ,
{
"Name" : "KeepRejects" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "AutomaticJunkFlags" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"AutomaticJunkFlags"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "JunkFilter" ,
"Docs" : "todo: sane defaults for junkfilter" ,
"Typewords" : [
"nullable" ,
"JunkFilter"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MaxOutgoingMessagesPerDay" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MaxFirstTimeRecipientsPerDay" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "NoFirstTimeSenderDelay" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Routes" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"Route"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "DNSDomain" ,
"Docs" : "Parsed form of Domain." ,
"Typewords" : [
"Domain"
]
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}
]
} ,
add a webapi and webhooks for a simple http/json-based api
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
2024-04-15 22:49:02 +03:00
{
"Name" : "OutgoingWebhook" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "URL" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Authorization" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Events" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "IncomingWebhook" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "URL" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Authorization" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
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{
"Name" : "Destination" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "Mailbox" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Rulesets" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"Ruleset"
]
add webmail
it was far down on the roadmap, but implemented earlier, because it's
interesting, and to help prepare for a jmap implementation. for jmap we need to
implement more client-like functionality than with just imap. internal data
structures need to change. jmap has lots of other requirements, so it's already
a big project. by implementing a webmail now, some of the required data
structure changes become clear and can be made now, so the later jmap
implementation can do things similarly to the webmail code. the webmail
frontend and webmail are written together, making their interface/api much
smaller and simpler than jmap.
one of the internal changes is that we now keep track of per-mailbox
total/unread/unseen/deleted message counts and mailbox sizes. keeping this
data consistent after any change to the stored messages (through the code base)
is tricky, so mox now has a consistency check that verifies the counts are
correct, which runs only during tests, each time an internal account reference
is closed. we have a few more internal "changes" that are propagated for the
webmail frontend (that imap doesn't have a way to propagate on a connection),
like changes to the special-use flags on mailboxes, and used keywords in a
mailbox. more changes that will be required have revealed themselves while
implementing the webmail, and will be implemented next.
the webmail user interface is modeled after the mail clients i use or have
used: thunderbird, macos mail, mutt; and webmails i normally only use for
testing: gmail, proton, yahoo, outlook. a somewhat technical user is assumed,
but still the goal is to make this webmail client easy to use for everyone. the
user interface looks like most other mail clients: a list of mailboxes, a
search bar, a message list view, and message details. there is a top/bottom and
a left/right layout for the list/message view, default is automatic based on
screen size. the panes can be resized by the user. buttons for actions are just
text, not icons. clicking a button briefly shows the shortcut for the action in
the bottom right, helping with learning to operate quickly. any text that is
underdotted has a title attribute that causes more information to be displayed,
e.g. what a button does or a field is about. to highlight potential phishing
attempts, any text (anywhere in the webclient) that switches unicode "blocks"
(a rough approximation to (language) scripts) within a word is underlined
orange. multiple messages can be selected with familiar ui interaction:
clicking while holding control and/or shift keys. keyboard navigation works
with arrows/page up/down and home/end keys, and also with a few basic vi-like
keys for list/message navigation. we prefer showing the text instead of
html (with inlined images only) version of a message. html messages are shown
in an iframe served from an endpoint with CSP headers to prevent dangerous
resources (scripts, external images) from being loaded. the html is also
sanitized, with javascript removed. a user can choose to load external
resources (e.g. images for tracking purposes).
the frontend is just (strict) typescript, no external frameworks. all
incoming/outgoing data is typechecked, both the api request parameters and
response types, and the data coming in over SSE. the types and checking code
are generated with sherpats, which uses the api definitions generated by
sherpadoc based on the Go code. so types from the backend are automatically
propagated to the frontend. since there is no framework to automatically
propagate properties and rerender components, changes coming in over the SSE
connection are propagated explicitly with regular function calls. the ui is
separated into "views", each with a "root" dom element that is added to the
visible document. these views have additional functions for getting changes
propagated, often resulting in the view updating its (internal) ui state (dom).
we keep the frontend compilation simple, it's just a few typescript files that
get compiled (combined and types stripped) into a single js file, no additional
runtime code needed or complicated build processes used. the webmail is served
is served from a compressed, cachable html file that includes style and the
javascript, currently just over 225kb uncompressed, under 60kb compressed (not
minified, including comments). we include the generated js files in the
repository, to keep Go's easily buildable self-contained binaries.
authentication is basic http, as with the account and admin pages. most data
comes in over one long-term SSE connection to the backend. api requests signal
which mailbox/search/messages are requested over the SSE connection. fetching
individual messages, and making changes, are done through api calls. the
operations are similar to imap, so some code has been moved from package
imapserver to package store. the future jmap implementation will benefit from
these changes too. more functionality will probably be moved to the store
package in the future.
the quickstart enables webmail on the internal listener by default (for new
installs). users can enable it on the public listener if they want to. mox
localserve enables it too. to enable webmail on existing installs, add settings
like the following to the listeners in mox.conf, similar to AccountHTTP(S):
WebmailHTTP:
Enabled: true
WebmailHTTPS:
Enabled: true
special thanks to liesbeth, gerben, andrii for early user feedback.
there is plenty still to do, see the list at the top of webmail/webmail.ts.
feedback welcome as always.
2023-08-07 22:57:03 +03:00
} ,
{
"Name" : "FullName" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
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}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Ruleset" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "SMTPMailFromRegexp" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "VerifiedDomain" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "HeadersRegexp" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"{}" ,
"string"
]
} ,
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{
"Name" : "IsForward" ,
"Docs" : "todo: once we implement ARC, we can use dkim domains that we cannot verify but that the arc-verified forwarding mail server was able to verify." ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
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{
"Name" : "ListAllowDomain" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
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{
"Name" : "AcceptRejectsToMailbox" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
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{
"Name" : "Mailbox" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "VerifiedDNSDomain" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"Domain"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "ListAllowDNSDomain" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"Domain"
]
}
]
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} ,
2024-04-14 18:18:20 +03:00
{
"Name" : "Domain" ,
"Docs" : "Domain is a domain name, with one or more labels, with at least an ASCII\nrepresentation, and for IDNA non-ASCII domains a unicode representation.\nThe ASCII string must be used for DNS lookups. The strings do not have a\ntrailing dot. When using with StrictResolver, add the trailing dot." ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "ASCII" ,
"Docs" : "A non-unicode domain, e.g. with A-labels (xn--...) or NR-LDH (non-reserved letters/digits/hyphens) labels. Always in lower case. No trailing dot." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Unicode" ,
"Docs" : "Name as U-labels, in Unicode NFC. Empty if this is an ASCII-only domain. No trailing dot." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "SubjectPass" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "Period" ,
"Docs" : "todo: have a reasonable default for this?" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "AutomaticJunkFlags" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "Enabled" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "JunkMailboxRegexp" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "NeutralMailboxRegexp" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "NotJunkMailboxRegexp" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "JunkFilter" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "Threshold" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"float64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Onegrams" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Twograms" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Threegrams" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MaxPower" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"float64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "TopWords" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "IgnoreWords" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"float64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "RareWords" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Route" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "FromDomain" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "ToDomain" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MinimumAttempts" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Transport" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "FromDomainASCII" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "ToDomainASCII" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
2023-12-31 13:55:22 +03:00
{
add a webapi and webhooks for a simple http/json-based api
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
2024-04-15 22:49:02 +03:00
"Name" : "Suppression" ,
"Docs" : "Suppression is an address to which messages will not be delivered. Attempts to\ndeliver or queue will result in an immediate permanent failure to deliver." ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "ID" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Created" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"timestamp"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Account" ,
"Docs" : "Suppression applies to this account only." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "BaseAddress" ,
"Docs" : "Unicode. Address with fictional simplified localpart: lowercase, dots removed (gmail), first token before any \"-\" or \"+\" (typical catchall separator)." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "OriginalAddress" ,
"Docs" : "Unicode. Address that caused this suppression." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Manual" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Reason" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "ImportProgress" ,
2023-12-31 13:55:22 +03:00
"Docs" : "ImportProgress is returned after uploading a file to import." ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "Token" ,
"Docs" : "For fetching progress, or cancelling an import." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
add a webapi and webhooks for a simple http/json-based api
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
2024-04-15 22:49:02 +03:00
} ,
{
"Name" : "Outgoing" ,
"Docs" : "Outgoing is the payload sent to webhook URLs for events about outgoing deliveries." ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "Version" ,
"Docs" : "Format of hook, currently 0." ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Event" ,
"Docs" : "Type of outgoing delivery event." ,
"Typewords" : [
"OutgoingEvent"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "DSN" ,
"Docs" : "If this event was triggered by a delivery status notification message (DSN)." ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Suppressing" ,
"Docs" : "If true, this failure caused the address to be added to the suppression list." ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "QueueMsgID" ,
"Docs" : "ID of message in queue." ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "FromID" ,
"Docs" : "As used in MAIL FROM, can be empty, for incoming messages." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MessageID" ,
"Docs" : "From Message-Id header, as set by submitter or us, with enclosing \u003c\u003e." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Subject" ,
"Docs" : "Of original message." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "WebhookQueued" ,
"Docs" : "When webhook was first queued for delivery." ,
"Typewords" : [
"timestamp"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "SMTPCode" ,
"Docs" : "Optional, for errors only, e.g. 451, 550. See package smtp for definitions." ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "SMTPEnhancedCode" ,
"Docs" : "Optional, for errors only, e.g. 5.1.1." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Error" ,
"Docs" : "Error message while delivering, or from DSN from remote, if any." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Extra" ,
"Docs" : "Extra fields set for message during submit, through webapi call or through X-Mox-Extra-* headers during SMTP submission." ,
"Typewords" : [
"{}" ,
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Incoming" ,
"Docs" : "Incoming is the data sent to a webhook for incoming deliveries over SMTP." ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "Version" ,
"Docs" : "Format of hook, currently 0." ,
"Typewords" : [
"int32"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "From" ,
"Docs" : "Message \"From\" header, typically has one address." ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"NameAddress"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "To" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"NameAddress"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "CC" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"NameAddress"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "BCC" ,
"Docs" : "Often empty, even if you were a BCC recipient." ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"NameAddress"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "ReplyTo" ,
"Docs" : "Optional Reply-To header, typically absent or with one address." ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"NameAddress"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Subject" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MessageID" ,
"Docs" : "Of Message-Id header, typically of the form \"\u003crandom@hostname\u003e\", includes \u003c\u003e." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "InReplyTo" ,
"Docs" : "Optional, the message-id this message is a reply to. Includes \u003c\u003e." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "References" ,
"Docs" : "Optional, zero or more message-ids this message is a reply/forward/related to. The last entry is the most recent/immediate message this is a reply to. Earlier entries are the parents in a thread. Values include \u003c\u003e." ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Date" ,
"Docs" : "Time in \"Date\" message header, can be different from time received." ,
"Typewords" : [
"nullable" ,
"timestamp"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Text" ,
"Docs" : "Contents of text/plain and/or text/html part (if any), with \"\\n\" line-endings, converted from \"\\r\\n\". Values are truncated to 1MB (1024*1024 bytes). Use webapi MessagePartGet to retrieve the full part data." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "HTML" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Structure" ,
"Docs" : "Parsed form of MIME message." ,
"Typewords" : [
"Structure"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Meta" ,
"Docs" : "Details about message in storage, and SMTP transaction details." ,
"Typewords" : [
"IncomingMeta"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "NameAddress" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "Name" ,
"Docs" : "Optional, human-readable \"display name\" of the addressee." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Address" ,
"Docs" : "Required, email address." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Structure" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "ContentType" ,
"Docs" : "Lower case, e.g. text/plain." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "ContentTypeParams" ,
"Docs" : "Lower case keys, original case values, e.g. {\"charset\": \"UTF-8\"}." ,
"Typewords" : [
"{}" ,
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "ContentID" ,
"Docs" : "Can be empty. Otherwise, should be a value wrapped in \u003c\u003e's. For use in HTML, referenced as URI `cid:...`." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "DecodedSize" ,
"Docs" : "Size of content after decoding content-transfer-encoding. For text and HTML parts, this can be larger than the data returned since this size includes \\r\\n line endings." ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Parts" ,
"Docs" : "Subparts of a multipart message, possibly recursive." ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"Structure"
]
}
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "IncomingMeta" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Fields" : [
{
"Name" : "MsgID" ,
"Docs" : "ID of message in storage, and to use in webapi calls like MessageGet." ,
"Typewords" : [
"int64"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MailFrom" ,
"Docs" : "Address used during SMTP \"MAIL FROM\" command." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MailFromValidated" ,
"Docs" : "Whether SMTP MAIL FROM address was SPF-validated." ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MsgFromValidated" ,
"Docs" : "Whether address in message \"From\"-header was DMARC(-like) validated." ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "RcptTo" ,
"Docs" : "SMTP RCPT TO address used in SMTP." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "DKIMVerifiedDomains" ,
"Docs" : "Verified domains from DKIM-signature in message. Can be different domain than used in addresses." ,
"Typewords" : [
"[]" ,
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "RemoteIP" ,
"Docs" : "Where the message was delivered from." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Received" ,
"Docs" : "When message was received, may be different from the Date header." ,
"Typewords" : [
"timestamp"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "MailboxName" ,
"Docs" : "Mailbox where message was delivered to, based on configured rules. Defaults to \"Inbox\"." ,
"Typewords" : [
"string"
]
} ,
{
"Name" : "Automated" ,
"Docs" : "Whether this message was automated and should not receive automated replies. E.g. out of office or mailing list messages." ,
"Typewords" : [
"bool"
]
}
]
2023-02-11 01:47:19 +03:00
}
] ,
2023-01-30 16:27:06 +03:00
"Ints" : [ ] ,
replace http basic auth for web interfaces with session cookie & csrf-based auth
the http basic auth we had was very simple to reason about, and to implement.
but it has a major downside:
there is no way to logout, browsers keep sending credentials. ideally, browsers
themselves would show a button to stop sending credentials.
a related downside: the http auth mechanism doesn't indicate for which server
paths the credentials are.
another downside: the original password is sent to the server with each
request. though sending original passwords to web servers seems to be
considered normal.
our new approach uses session cookies, along with csrf values when we can. the
sessions are server-side managed, automatically extended on each use. this
makes it easy to invalidate sessions and keeps the frontend simpler (than with
long- vs short-term sessions and refreshing). the cookies are httponly,
samesite=strict, scoped to the path of the web interface. cookies are set
"secure" when set over https. the cookie is set by a successful call to Login.
a call to Logout invalidates a session. changing a password invalidates all
sessions for a user, but keeps the session with which the password was changed
alive. the csrf value is also random, and associated with the session cookie.
the csrf must be sent as header for api calls, or as parameter for direct form
posts (where we cannot set a custom header). rest-like calls made directly by
the browser, e.g. for images, don't have a csrf protection. the csrf value is
returned by the Login api call and stored in localstorage.
api calls without credentials return code "user:noAuth", and with bad
credentials return "user:badAuth". the api client recognizes this and triggers
a login. after a login, all auth-failed api calls are automatically retried.
only for "user:badAuth" is an error message displayed in the login form (e.g.
session expired).
in an ideal world, browsers would take care of most session management. a
server would indicate authentication is needed (like http basic auth), and the
browsers uses trusted ui to request credentials for the server & path. the
browser could use safer mechanism than sending original passwords to the
server, such as scram, along with a standard way to create sessions. for now,
web developers have to do authentication themselves: from showing the login
prompt, ensuring the right session/csrf cookies/localstorage/headers/etc are
sent with each request.
webauthn is a newer way to do authentication, perhaps we'll implement it in the
future. though hardware tokens aren't an attractive option for many users, and
it may be overkill as long as we still do old-fashioned authentication in smtp
& imap where passwords can be sent to the server.
for issue #58
2024-01-04 15:10:48 +03:00
"Strings" : [
{
"Name" : "CSRFToken" ,
"Docs" : "" ,
"Values" : null
add a webapi and webhooks for a simple http/json-based api
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
2024-04-15 22:49:02 +03:00
} ,
{
"Name" : "OutgoingEvent" ,
"Docs" : "OutgoingEvent is an activity for an outgoing delivery. Either generated by the\nqueue, or through an incoming DSN (delivery status notification) message." ,
"Values" : [
{
"Name" : "EventDelivered" ,
"Value" : "delivered" ,
"Docs" : "Message was accepted by a next-hop server. This does not necessarily mean the\nmessage has been delivered in the mailbox of the user."
} ,
{
"Name" : "EventSuppressed" ,
"Value" : "suppressed" ,
"Docs" : "Outbound delivery was suppressed because the recipient address is on the\nsuppression list of the account, or a simplified/base variant of the address is."
} ,
{
"Name" : "EventDelayed" ,
"Value" : "delayed" ,
"Docs" : "A delivery attempt failed but delivery will be retried again later."
} ,
{
"Name" : "EventFailed" ,
"Value" : "failed" ,
"Docs" : "Delivery of the message failed and will not be tried again. Also see the\n\"Suppressing\" field of [Outgoing]."
} ,
{
"Name" : "EventRelayed" ,
"Value" : "relayed" ,
"Docs" : "Message was relayed into a system that does not generate DSNs. Should only\nhappen when explicitly requested."
} ,
{
"Name" : "EventExpanded" ,
"Value" : "expanded" ,
"Docs" : "Message was accepted and is being delivered to multiple recipients (e.g. the\naddress was an alias/list), which may generate more DSNs."
} ,
{
"Name" : "EventCanceled" ,
"Value" : "canceled" ,
"Docs" : "Message was removed from the queue, e.g. canceled by admin/user."
} ,
{
"Name" : "EventUnrecognized" ,
"Value" : "unrecognized" ,
"Docs" : "An incoming message was received that was either a DSN with an unknown event\ntype (\"action\"), or an incoming non-DSN-message was received for the unique\nper-outgoing-message address used for sending."
}
]
replace http basic auth for web interfaces with session cookie & csrf-based auth
the http basic auth we had was very simple to reason about, and to implement.
but it has a major downside:
there is no way to logout, browsers keep sending credentials. ideally, browsers
themselves would show a button to stop sending credentials.
a related downside: the http auth mechanism doesn't indicate for which server
paths the credentials are.
another downside: the original password is sent to the server with each
request. though sending original passwords to web servers seems to be
considered normal.
our new approach uses session cookies, along with csrf values when we can. the
sessions are server-side managed, automatically extended on each use. this
makes it easy to invalidate sessions and keeps the frontend simpler (than with
long- vs short-term sessions and refreshing). the cookies are httponly,
samesite=strict, scoped to the path of the web interface. cookies are set
"secure" when set over https. the cookie is set by a successful call to Login.
a call to Logout invalidates a session. changing a password invalidates all
sessions for a user, but keeps the session with which the password was changed
alive. the csrf value is also random, and associated with the session cookie.
the csrf must be sent as header for api calls, or as parameter for direct form
posts (where we cannot set a custom header). rest-like calls made directly by
the browser, e.g. for images, don't have a csrf protection. the csrf value is
returned by the Login api call and stored in localstorage.
api calls without credentials return code "user:noAuth", and with bad
credentials return "user:badAuth". the api client recognizes this and triggers
a login. after a login, all auth-failed api calls are automatically retried.
only for "user:badAuth" is an error message displayed in the login form (e.g.
session expired).
in an ideal world, browsers would take care of most session management. a
server would indicate authentication is needed (like http basic auth), and the
browsers uses trusted ui to request credentials for the server & path. the
browser could use safer mechanism than sending original passwords to the
server, such as scram, along with a standard way to create sessions. for now,
web developers have to do authentication themselves: from showing the login
prompt, ensuring the right session/csrf cookies/localstorage/headers/etc are
sent with each request.
webauthn is a newer way to do authentication, perhaps we'll implement it in the
future. though hardware tokens aren't an attractive option for many users, and
it may be overkill as long as we still do old-fashioned authentication in smtp
& imap where passwords can be sent to the server.
for issue #58
2024-01-04 15:10:48 +03:00
}
] ,
2023-01-30 16:27:06 +03:00
"SherpaVersion" : 0 ,
"SherpadocVersion" : 1
}