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fix(email): retain source services during native apply - #933
Enabling email on a native box starts agent-box-email.service, then activation cleanup stops its required agent-box-email-source@<user>.service because the renderer omitted the source from its declared units. Systemd consequently stops SMTP, apply fails, and an update can roll back.
Declare enabled email source services alongside the listener so activation starts and verifies them and cleanup only stops removed sources. Add a regression that exercises activation with an enabled and a removed source; it fails on the previous code. Document OpenSMTPD's root ownership requirement for certificate/key files, encountered during the same live setup.
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python3 tests/test_email.py (11 passed; regression failed before the fix)
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Live native setup: verified STARTTLS certificate, successful delivery to retained bus content, and SMTP rejection of unknown recipients, plus-addressing, and external relay.
The renderer now includes generated email-source units in its unit list. An activation test checks the enabled and removed source units. The email documentation adds OpenSMTPD certificate ownership guidance.
Changes: Email source activation
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Track email-source units and verify activation bin/agentbox, tests/test_email.py
Renderer.email adds generated email-source units to t.units. The activation test checks that the enabled Alice unit starts, the removed Bob unit stops, and activation reports no failures.
Email certificate guidance
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Document certificate ownership docs/email.md
The documentation says that when the certificate manager is not root, a root-managed renewal hook must validate and copy the matching certificate/key pair into a private mail directory, then restart the mail service. It also states that OpenSMTPD rejects Caddy-owned files.
defangdevs/agent-box#929: That PR adds Renderer.email and the per-user source units that this change adds to t.units.
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Document safe certificate and key modes before merging to avoid failed mail restarts and unnecessary private-key exposure.
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L167: `Oct 22 14:40:01 hostname systemd[1]: Started opensmtpd.service.
L168: Oct 22 14:40:03 hostname smtpd[758]: warn: /var/lib/acme/mx.example.com/fullchain.pem: not owned by uid 0
L169: Oct 22 14:40:03 hostname smtpd[758]: smtpd: load_pki_tree: failed to load certificate file
L170: Oct 22 14:40:03 hostname systemd[1]: opensmtpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
L171: Oct 22 14:40:03 hostname systemd[1]: opensmtpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
L172: `
L173: As you can see, opensmtpd seems to require the certificates to be owned by root.
L174: I tried adding `chown root fullchain.pem key.pem` to `security.acme.certs.postRun` but it seems that the ownership resets to `acme` when rebooting.
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L176: To Reproduce
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L210: I'm using Caddy to generate and retrieve Keys and Certificates for a linux server (private LAN, no official certs). The keys and certs are under
L211: /var/lib/caddy/.local/share/caddy/certificates/....
L212: but opensmtpd can't read them, error message "not owned by uid 0", because they are owned/group by caddy.
L213: Copying the files to some other location and chowning them to root would not really help, since caddy updates these files every now and then.
L214:
L215: It recommend to give the pki commands an option to accept a uid/gid other than zero.
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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 3 days ago; OpenSMTPD relies on: ... * libressl or OpenSSL ... To accommodate systems that require historical interfaces such as `sendmail`, `newaliases` or `makemap`, the `smtpctl` utility can operate in compatibility mode if called with the historical name. ... Please have a look at the complete format description of `smtpd.conf` configuration file ... Again we need an unused UID below `500`, list the current ones used: ... /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -delete /Users/_smtpd dsAttrTypeNative:ShadowHashData
## Install via container
Container images available at this repo's packages page.
## Install from source
### Install dependencies
OpenSMTPD relies on:
* pkgconf or pkg-config
* libevent
* libressl or OpenSSL
When not building from a release tarball (e.g. from the git repository), the following dependencies are needed too:
* autoconf
* automake
* bison or byacc
* libtool
By default OpenSMTPD expects latest versions of all dependencies unless noted otherwise.
Note that some distributions have different packages for a same library, you should always use the `-dev` or `-devel` package (for example, `libevent-dev` or `libevent-devel`) if you're going to build OpenSMTPD yourself.
### Get the source code
Clone from github:
`git clone https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD.git
`
Download tarball
Latest release can always be found here
### Compile
`cd opensmtpd*
./bootstrap # Only if you build from git sources
./configure
make
sudo make install
`
#### Special notes for macOS
Please launch configure with special directive about libevent directory:
`./configure --with-libevent=/opt/local
`
Though macOS includes a copy of bison in the bases system, you will need to install a more recent version from, e.g., MacPorts.
### Install
`sudo make install
`
### Setup historical interface
OpenSMTPD provides a single utility `smtpctl` to control the daemon and the local submission subsystem.
To accommodate systems that require historical interfaces such as `sendmail`, `newaliases` or `makemap`, the `smtpctl` utility can operate in compatibility mode if called with the historical name.
On mailwrapper-enabled systems, this is achieved by editing `/etc/mailer.conf` and adding the following lines:
`sendmail /usr/sbin/smtpctl
send-mail /usr/sbin/smtpctl
mailq /usr/sbin/smtpctl
makemap /usr/sbin/smtpctl
newaliases /usr/sbin/smtpctl
`
Whereas on systems that don't provide mailwrapper, it can be achieved by setting the appropriate symbolic links:
`ln -s /usr/sbin/smtpctl sendmail
ln -s /usr/sbin/smtpctl send-mail
ln -s /usr/sbin/smtpctl mailq
ln -s /usr/sbin/smtpctl makemap
ln -s /usr/sbin/smtpctl newaliases
`
The OpenSMTPD project leaves it up to the package maintainers to setup the links in their packages as it is very hard for us to accommodate all systems with the preferred method in a clean way.
### Configure `/etc/smtpd.conf`
Please have a look at the complete format description of `smtpd.conf` configuration file
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Using two users instead of one will increase security by a large factor so... if you want to voluntarily reduce security or you have absolute more faith in our code than we do, by all means use one.
The instructions below assume the default users however, the configure script allows overriding these using the options: `--with-user-smtpd`, `--with-user-queue`, and `--with-group-queue`.
#### NetBSD, Linux (Debian, Arch Linux, ...)
`mkdir /var/empty
useradd -c "SMTP Daemon" -d /var/empty -s /sbin/nologin _smtpd
useradd -c "SMTPD Queue" -d /var/empty -s /sbin/nologin _smtpq
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Citations:
- 1: GitHub issue 1302 in OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
Document the required file modes.
OpenSMTPD rejects certificate permission bits outside 0755 and key permission bits outside 0740. The renewal hook does not specify destination modes. A permissive copy can prevent agent-box-email.service from restarting and can expose the private key. Document explicit modes such as 0644 for the certificate and 0600 for the key.
Suggested documentation fix
--- "a/docs/email.md"+++ "b/docs/email.md"@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@
`agent-box-email.service`. Private keys belong outside the Nix store. This
feature does not export Caddy's private key or change its renewal lifecycle.
OpenSMTPD requires both certificate and key files to be owned by root. If
your certificate manager runs as another user (such as Caddy), use a
root-managed renewal hook to validate and copy the matching certificate/key
-pair into a private mail directory, then restart the mail service. Pointing-intake directly at Caddy-owned certificate files fails OpenSMTPD validation.+pair into a private mail directory with mode `0644` for the certificate and+`0600` for the key, then restart the mail service. Pointing intake directly+at Caddy-owned certificate files fails OpenSMTPD validation.
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Update the renewal-hook guidance in the OpenSMTPD documentation to specify
destination modes of 0644 for the certificate and 0600 for the key when copying
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Enabling email on a native box starts
agent-box-email.service, then activation cleanup stops its requiredagent-box-email-source@<user>.servicebecause the renderer omitted the source from its declared units. Systemd consequently stops SMTP, apply fails, and an update can roll back.Declare enabled email source services alongside the listener so activation starts and verifies them and cleanup only stops removed sources. Add a regression that exercises activation with an enabled and a removed source; it fails on the previous code. Document OpenSMTPD's root ownership requirement for certificate/key files, encountered during the same live setup.
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python3 tests/test_email.py(11 passed; regression failed before the fix)python3 tests/test_agentbox.py(161 tests, one skipped)nix build -L --keep-going .#ci-native --max-jobs 4 --cores 1 --no-link(passed)No networking defaults change.